Wedge strategies, Japan-ASEAN cooperation, and the making of EAS: implications for Indo-Pacific institutionalization

• Main Author: Koga, Kei
• Other Authors: J. D. Ciorciari
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Michigan Press 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science::International relations; Japan; ASEAN; EAS; Wedge Strategy; International Cooperation; Great Power Politics; Indo-Pacific; International Institutions
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155559
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

I argue that it is difficult for ASEAN’s cooperation with Japan and other external powers to expand in geographic scope from Southeast Asia to the Indo-Pacific because of the availability of wedge strategies. A wedge strategy refers to “a state’s attempt to prevent, break up, or weaken a threatening...