Great powers and Southeast Asian Regional security strategies : omni-enmeshment, balancing and hierarchical order

• Main Author: Goh, Evelyn
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Working Paper
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Military and naval science::Strategy::Asia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79836; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/4481
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The small and medium-sized states in Southeast Asia have undergone significant geostrategic changes with the end of the Cold War and the rise of China. There has been a lively debate over the last decade about whether these countries would balance against or bandwagon with China, and how their relat...