Managing Great Power Politics

This Open Access book explains ASEANs strategic role in managing great power politics in East Asia. Constructing a theory of institutional strategy this book argues that the regional security institutions in Southeast Asia ASEAN and ASEANled institutions have devised their own institutional strategies visvis the South China Sea and navigated the greatpower politics since the 1990s. ASEAN proliferated new security institutions in the 1990s and 2000s that assumed a different functionality a di