America’s quest for a new equilibrium with Asia : pivoting to surrogacy?

• Main Authors: Chew, Emrys, Chong, Alan
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science::International relations
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104057; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20090
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

US Secretary of State John Kerry, attending the ASEAN Regional Forum in Brunei on his first official trip to Southeast Asia, has reaffirmed the salience of America’s “pivot” to Asia. This “rebalancing” of US strategic priorities has called for increasingly sophisticated approaches to matters of mu...