Institutional collapse and shifting balance of ontological security : role of Malaysia’s dual identity in the decay of ASPAC in the 1960s and 1970s

• Main Authors: Koga, Kei, Zul Hazmi Nordin
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science; Asia Pacific Network of Science & Technology Centres; Ontological Security
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152085
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article examines the causal process of the institutional collapse of the Asia Pacific Council (ASPAC) in 1973 by focusing on Malaysia’s foreign policy behavior, and highlights implications for today’s ASEAN. Specifically, it argues that the institutional collapse of ASPAC was caused by Malaysia...