International Relations and Asia’s Southern Tier: ASEAN, Australia, and India

365 Pages·2018·3.789 MB·English

by  Gilbert Rozman,Joseph Chinyong Liow (eds.)

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CKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book is drawn from the postings in The Asan Forum, an online
journal started by the Asan Institute of Policy Studies in June 2013.
Focused on recent international relations in the Indo-Pacific region, this
journalprovidescontinuouscoverageoftheimportantbilateralandmulti-
lateral relationships reshaping East Asia. In this series, we group selected
postingsnotbywhentheyappearedbutintodistinctarenasthathaveeach
beenrapidlytransforminginthe2010s,asseenfromdiverseanglesinthe
regionandinthe West.The selectionsin thisbookcomefrom2014and
2015, and they center on what we label the “southern tier” of the wider
region.
Many persons have made this book possible. Hahm Chaibong,
President of the Asan Institute, established the journal and set its overall
direction in support of academic standards and balanced regional cover-
age. The staff of the journal has devoted its energy to ensuring timely,
sustainedpostingofhigh-qualitymaterials.Theauthorswhowriteforthe
journalhave been very cooperative in takingthis taskseriously andmeet-
ing deadlines. Iam alsograteful to Joseph Liowforserving asco-editor.
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ONTENTS
Asia’sSouthernTier 1
Gilbert RozmanandJoseph Chinyong Liow
Reimagining Asia:From Asia-Pacific
toIndo-Pacific 9
Rory Medcalf
ASEANand AsianMultilateralism
Multilateralismin EastAsia: The Good,the Bad, andthe Ugly 31
Jochen Prantl
ASEAN-LedMultilateralism andRegionalOrder: The Great
PowerBargain Deficit 45
EvelynGoh
Southeast Asia’s DevelopingDivide 63
MalcolmCook
Doomed by Dialogue:Will ASEANSurvive Great Power
Rivalry in Asia? 77
Amitav Acharya
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viii CONTENTS
RethinkingASEAN inLight of the SouthChinaSeaTensions
ASEANis Neither the ProblemNor the Solution toSouth
ChinaSeaDisputes 95
Satu Limaye
ASEAN’s FailingGrade in the SouthChinaSea 111
Ian Storey
Malaysia’s“SpecialRelationship”withChina andthe South
ChinaSea: Not So SpecialAnymore 125
Scott Bentley
The US-China-Japan Triangleandthe Conceptof “ASEAN
Centrality”: Mythor Reality? 143
Kuroyanagi Yoneji
The SouthChinaSeaDisputes: Some Blindspots
andMisperceptions 159
Joseph Chinyong Liow
Southeast AsianCaseStudies
CanIndonesia Fulfill ItsAspirationsto RegionalLeadership? 175
Joseph Chinyong Liow
Malaysia’sChina PolicyafterMH370: DeepeningAmbivalence
amid GrowingAsymmetry 189
Cheng-ChweeKuik
Vietnam among thePowers: Struggle andCooperation 207
Mark Manyin
The Politicsof “Struggling Co-evolution”: Trade,Power,
andVision inVietnam’s RelationswithChina 229
Truong-MinhVu
CONTENTS ix
Australia
Why ValuesMatterin Australia’sRelations withChina 247
John Fitzgerald
LessGeneva, More Jakarta:Assessing Australia’sAsia Pivot 261
AndrewO’Neil
India
The NewFulcrum of Asia:The Indo-Japan Entente
andthe Rise ofChina 279
John W.Garver
India’sNew LeadershipandEast Asia 297
Daniel Twining
From LookEast toActEast: Transitionsin India’sEastward
Engagement 321
RahulMishra
India-USRelations
AUS Perspective 343
Daniel Twining
AJapanese Perspective 349
Chiharu Takenaka
AnIndian Perspective 357
RahulMishra
Index 367
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IST OF IGURES
Malaysia’s“SpecialRelationship”withChinaandtheSouthChinaSea:
NotSoSpecialAnymore
Fig.1 MMEABombardier415surveillanceflightoverSouth
LuconiaShoal,whereChinesecoastguardshipsare
reportedtohaveestablishedapermanentpresence.June
2015(Facebook) 126
VietnamamongthePowers:StruggleandCooperation
Fig.1 Vietnam’sMajorTradingPartners,2012 214
Fig.2 ForeignVisitorstoVietnamfromChina 215
Fig.3 SharesofVietnam’sExportswithTopTradingPartners,
SelectedYears 219
Fig.4 SharesofVietnam’sImportsfromMajorTradingPartners,
SelectedYears 220
TheNewFulcrumofAsia:TheIndo-JapanEntente
andtheRiseofChina
Fig.1 MajoradvancesintheIndia–Japanpartnership 284
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