Can ASEAN Cope with China?. Issue 1 (April 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Beeson, Mark
• Is Part Of: Journal of current Southeast Asian affairs. Volume 35:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 5
• Page End: 28
• Publication Date: 2016-04
• Subjects: ASEAN -- Southeast Asia -- rise of China -- security -- foreign policy; Southeast Asia -- Periodicals; Southeast Asia -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; Southeast Asia -- Foreign relations -- Periodicals; 320.959
• DOI: 10.1177/186810341603500101
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1868-1034

Abstract

The rise of China is the most important development in East Asia in recent times. It presents major opportunities and challenges, if not threats, for ASEAN as a collective entity, and for the individual countries that compose it. Whether ASEAN can develop a collective, let alone effective response is far from clear. This paper explores and analyses the forces that are likely to determine the outcome.