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- Title: Southeast Asia in the Sino-U.S. Strategic Balance.
- Author : Contemporary Southeast Asia
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 300 KB
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Introduction Throughout much of the post-Gold War period, the dynamics of the Sino-U.S. relationship have been a critical factor in Southeast Asian states' foreign policies. Southeast Asia has traditionally been a site of great power competition for regional dominance, due to its strategic location as a bridge between continental and maritime East Asia. To manage this competition and to enhance their own subregional autonomy, the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) engaged in a number of regional institution building initiatives during the early 1990s. This "institutionalist" agenda led to speculation that ASEAN could become the hub of a nascent regional security community. (1)