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- Title
Weak states' regionalism: ASEAN and the limits of security cooperation in Pacific Asia.
- Authors
Jones, David Martin; Jenne, Nicole
- Abstract
Since the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) expanded its institutional outreach to span the broader Asia Pacific and new policy areas, a dominant orthodoxy has placed the organization at the center of the region's international order. More recently, uncertainty in the context of China's rise sheds doubt on ASEAN's apparent centrality to its proced- urally driven transformation of foreign relations across East Asia. While theories of cooperation explain why and when minor powers choose to pool their resources, the reverse logic has hardly been considered. This paper shows that the particular type of ASEAN regionalism is not only a product of weak states' cooperation but that the lack of capacity also sets the limits for the regional project. Two case studies on intramural security elicit the limited effectiveness of ASEAN's endeavor to develop into a security community. Meanwhile, as an examination of the South China Sea dispute demonstrates, its attempt to export its norms has rendered it vulnerable to the intervention of more powerful actors and increasingly side-lined by the evolution of great power rivalry.
- Subjects
ASEAN; REGIONALISM; EAST Asia-United States relations; INSTITUTIONAL cooperation; INSTITUTIONAL autonomy; REGIONAL movements; NATIONAL security
- Publication
International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 2016, Vol 16, Issue 2, p209
- ISSN
1470-482X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/irap/lcv015