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Cooperative security and the balance of power in ASEAN and the ARF / Ralf Emmers - New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003 - xvi, 197 p. ; 24 cm.

1. Regimes for cooperative security : the formation and institutional evolution of ASEAN and the ARF -- 2. The role of the balance of power factor within and beyond regimes for cooperative security -- 3. The balance of power factor and the denial of intra-mural hegemony : ASEAN's early years and its enlargement to include Brunei in 1984 -- 4. The balance of power and extra-mural hegemony : ASEAN's response to the Third Indochina Conflict -- 5. The Post-Cold War regional security context : the role of the balance of power factor within the ARF -- 6. ASEAN's Post-Cold War involvement in the South China Sea Dispute : the relevance of associative and balance of power dimensions -- Conclusion.

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Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASEAN Regional Forum


National security--Asia, Southeastern
National security--Pacific Area
Security, International


Asia, Southeastern--Politics and government--1945-
Pacific Area--Politics and government
Asia, Southeastern--Foreign relations--Pacific Area
Pacific Area--Foreign relations--Asia, Southeastern