ASEAN, Chinese and US legitimation strategies over the Indo-Pacific security architecture

• Main Author: Ng, Joel
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science::International relations; Security; Architecture; ASEAN
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168590
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

As growing Sino-US tensions have led to increasingly contested architecture in the Asia–Pacific, rival actors have become more vocal in legitimizing their preferred structures. Yet supplanting existing, accepted structures requires legitimation, and raises questions this article seeks to address: ho...