Enter the Vanguard State: Reinterpreting ASEAN’s Response to the South China Sea Issue

Southgate, Laura; Khoo, Nicholas

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“…But ASEAN provides Vietnam with a non-exclusive platform for dialogue between major powers. By promoting multilateral dialogues covering major powers, taking on the role of vanguard states in ASEAN's response to China's policy in the South China Sea, Vietnam can have more opportunities to express its aspirations and improve its status in international diplomacy, further defending its interests in the South China Sea (Southgate & Khoo, 2016).…”

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Vietnam’s Perception and Response to the Emerging Indo-Pacific Regional Security Architecture

Manh

2022

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With the rising of the two emerging great power - China and India, the "Indo-Pacific" has already possessed the fundamental conditions of the regional security complex, while the United States as the hegemonic state intervenes in security affairs which takes advantage of characteristics of the identity structure and power structure of regional security complexes by penetration mechanism. Buzan's theory has shown us the contour of the emerging security architecture in the Indo-Pacific region. After applying the regional security complex theory to analyze the security of the region, this article analyzes Vietnam’s perception and response to the emerging Indo-Pacific security architecture. The article points out that the perception of regional security structure expressed through foreign policy adjustment can be basically divided into two layers: regional and extra-regional. In which the regional layer with the focus on ASEAN; and the extra-regional is ASEAN-centered multilateral groups. Since then, Vietnam has tried to incorporate its foreign policy calculations into the multilateral and multi-dimensional Indo-Pacific agenda. Vietnam's response manifests itself mainly in strengthening economic and trade cooperation with China, deepening security cooperation with the US and its network of allies, and with the help of the power of ASEAN to restrain the US and China. In addition, with its favorable geographical position and strong rise in recent years, Vietnam expects India to become an indispensable "security supplier" and an indispensable "balancing force" in Indo-Pacific regional security architecture.

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Vietnam’s Perception and Response to the Emerging Indo-Pacific Regional Security Architecture

Manh

2022

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“…A standoff between Filipino and Chinese vessels in the Scarborough Shoal in 2012 lasted over two months, triggering anti-Chinese demonstrations in the Philippines (De Castro 2016b). The Obama administration's commitment to regional security came at an opportune time for these states, both of which actively sought US security guarantees in addition to support from regional powers such as India and Australia (Southgate and Khoo 2016).…”

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ASEAN: still the zone of peace, freedom and neutrality?

Southgate

2021

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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN) pursuit for a Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality (ZOPFAN) first began during the Cold War, at a time of intense superpower rivalry in Southeast Asia. ASEAN reaffirmed the importance of this principle in 2020, amid growing concerns of instability in the Asia-Pacific region as a result of increasing tensions between the United States (US) and China. Through an examination of the ZOPFAN principle, this paper seeks to develop a greater understanding of ASEAN's ability to respond to periods of geopolitical crisis and Great Power rivalry. It asks whether a ZOPFAN in Southeast Asia has ever been successfully realised, and what is the likelihood of one being achieved in the future. As analysis of recent security challenges will show, ZOPFAN falls short as both a framework for regional security and as an expression of regional autonomy. This raises serious questions about ASEAN's coherence in the post-Cold War era, and its ability to uphold regional order in light of renewed Great Power security competition.

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“…Esto puede apreciarse en los incentivos iniciales que llevaron a Beijing a formar parte del Foro y, luego, a participar más activamente, en particular en los procesos que involucran exclusivamente a países del Este de Asia (Kraft, 2017;Yang y Li, 2016). No obstante, su acercamiento a las instancias multilaterales, la preferencia por estrategias bilaterales y de corte realista continúa prevaleciendo (Hoang, 2019;Southgate y Khoo, 2016). Esto puede verse principalmente en áreas que se definen como más vulnerables desde la perspectiva de Beijing, como la negativa a hacer referencia a la soberanía sobre las islas del MCM en el marco de diálogos multilaterales de ARF, a discutir sobre el desarrollo en las partes del archipiélago sobre los que ejerce posesión y a darle un tratamiento formal de resolución de controversia.…”

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Análisis de la política exterior de Xi Jinping hacia el Sudeste de Asia: Estrategias, intereses y dimensiones

Rubiolo

Busilli

Escobar

2020

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El presente trabajo analiza la política exterior de Xi Jinping hacia el Sudeste de Asia, focalizando en las dimensiones político-estratégica y económica. Se toma como premisa, coincidiendo con una extensa línea de estudios, que sus acciones y estrategias muestran mayor visibilidad y dinamismo que las ejecutadas por sus antecesores, tanto a nivel regional como global. A partir de la revisión bibliográfica se identifica que China combina, por un lado, una política exterior asertiva en cuestiones de soberanía territorial, como la defensa de su soberanía marítima en el Mar de China Meridional y; por el otro, la integración económica y comercial basada en la interdependencia y el multilateralismo, a través del fortalecimiento de los lazos regionales en el marco de la ASEAN+3, el Área de Libre Comercio China-ASEAN y la Belt and Road Initiative. Este artículo se centra en la complementariedad de las acciones e iniciativas de la política exterior china hacia la región, a partir del desarrollo de una estrategia holística de proyección global, basada en la consolidación de un espacio regional de poder y la consecuente construcción de liderazgo.

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Enter the Vanguard State: Reinterpreting ASEAN’s Response to the South China Sea Issue

Cited by 6 publications

References 32 publications

Vietnam’s Perception and Response to the Emerging Indo-Pacific Regional Security Architecture

Vietnam’s Perception and Response to the Emerging Indo-Pacific Regional Security Architecture

ASEAN: still the zone of peace, freedom and neutrality?

Análisis de la política exterior de Xi Jinping hacia el Sudeste de Asia: Estrategias, intereses y dimensiones

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