FROM INDO-PACIFIC CENTRALITY TO STRATEGIC AUTONOMY: ASEAN – US PERSPECTIVE
Keywords:
QUAD, ASEAN, Minilateral, Strategic Autonomy, Indo-Pacific
Abstract
Indo-Pacific is indeed a versatile region with vast geoeconomic and geopolitical advantages and potentials, with ASEAN at its center. Strategic engagement of countries whether to bandwagon or balance major power’s rivalries are pretty much a pertinent deliberation for the last and next decades to come as the global shifting is now moving towards the Indo-Pacific region. This paper employs qualitative analysis to answer the main contentions of: (1) how minilateralism affects Indo-Pacific, and what ASEAN-US role can be explored; and (2) does ASEAN-US matter and how it could actively find convergences in navigating forward in the rules-based region. The author suggests that looking west and being concerned the east or the other way around can be a sufficient strategy in constructing ASEAN-US engagement amid the rising minilateral groupings and concerns against the “crippled” ASEAN centrality since AUKUS and the recent developments in the region.
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Muni, S. (2013). Conflicts in Southeast Asia: Causes, Consequences, Prospects (No. 170). Singapore.
Nag, R. M. (2015). The Asian Century: Plausible but not Preordained. Emerging Economy Studies, 1(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1177/2394901514562311
Nye, J. S. (2020). No, the Coronavirus Will Not Change the Global Order. Retrieved December 11, 2021, from Foreign Policy website: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/16/coronavirus-pandemic-china-united-states-power-competition/
Paik, W., & Park, J. J. (2021). The Quad’s Search for Non-Military Roles and China’s Strategic Response: Minilateralism, Infrastructure Investment, and Regional Balancing. Journal of Contemporary China, 30(127), 36–52. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2020.1766908
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Pennisi di Floristella, A. (2019). United States and European Union Evolving Approaches in Southeast Asia: Moving Closer to Convergence or Divergence? Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 38(2), 172–193. https://doi.org/10.1177/1868103419866533
Qodarsasi, U., & Rachmawati, T. (2018). Upaya Cina menjadi Kekuatan Maritim dalam Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA). Nation State Journal of International Studies, 1, 142–158. https://doi.org/10.24076/NSJIS.2018v1i2.132
Regilme, S. S. F. (2018). Beyond Paradigms: Understanding the South China Sea Dispute Using Analytic Eclecticism. International Studies, 55(3), 213–237. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020881718794527
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Tow, W. T. (2019). Minilateral security’s relevance to US strategy in the Indo-Pacific: challenges and prospects. The Pacific Review, 32(2), 232–244. https://doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2018.1465457
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Yang, Y. E., Keller, J. W., & Molnar, J. (2018). An Operational Code Analysis of China’s National Defense White Papers: 1998-2015. Journal of Chinese Political Science, 23(4), 585–602. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-017-9524-5
Zhou, F. (2016). Between assertiveness and self-restraint: understanding China’s South China Sea policy. International Affairs, 92, 869–890. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.12657
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2022-02-28
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Hino Samuel Jose. (2022). FROM INDO-PACIFIC CENTRALITY TO STRATEGIC AUTONOMY: ASEAN – US PERSPECTIVE. Indonesian Journal of International Relations, 6(1), 205-228. https://doi.org/10.32787/ijir.v6i1.311
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