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This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Beijing and Washington’s Southeast Asia policy, and moves beyond the superpower dyad to examine how multiple external actors — including the EU, UK, Japan, India and Australia — are seeking to project power into the region.
Vital for scholars and students of international relations, security studies and Asian politics, it offers a path to understanding one of the world's most strategically important regions in an era of great power strategic competition.
“Southeast Asia has long found itself at the intersection of competing interests of major external powers, from the great Indic and Sinic civilisations, through the era of European colonialism, to the present-day competition between the US and China. This competition has intensified in recent years, prompting concern that the region has become an arena for great power rivalry. What are these interests, and how have they shaped and reshaped contours of rivalry against the backdrop of changes in foreign policy dispositions and approaches particularly in the US and China? This collection of essays, expertly brought together by Laura Southgate and Nicholas Khoo, will be tremendously helpful in guiding our understanding of how external powers locate Southeast Asia in their broader conceptions of strategic objectives in the Indo-Pacific region.” Joseph Chinyong Liow, Wang Gungwu Chair in East Asian Affairs and Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.
“This book is an important and timely contribution to the literature. It offers clear and accessible analysis, providing insights that will be useful for researchers, students and practitioners.” Sarah Teo, Nanyang Technological University
Laura Southgate is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University, UK.
Nicholas Khoo is Associate Professor in the Politics Programme at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
1. Introduction: Southeast Asia in an Era of US-China Strategic Competition – Nicholas Khoo and Laura Southgate
2. China and Southeast Asia in the Era of Post-Cold War US-China Rivalry – Chien-Peng (C. P.) Chung
3. From Sentimental Imperialists to Gritty Power Broker: The United States in Postwar and Post-Colonial Southeast Asia – Juhn Chris P. Espia and Alexander C. Tan
4. Offering a Strategic Alternative: Japan’s Southeast Asia Policy in an Era of US-China Rivalry – Bhubhindar Singh
5. Looking and Acting East: India’s Power Projection in Southeast Asia – Neel Vanvari
6. Australia and Southeast Asia: Security Interdependence – Andrea Benvenuti
7. Tilting to the Indo-Pacific: United Kingdom’ Reengagement of Southeast Asia – Laura Southgate and Nicholas Khoo
8. The Limits of Soft Power: EU Normative Power in Southeast Asia – Uwe Wunderlich
9. Conclusion: Southeast Asia at a Crossroads – Laura Southgate and Nicholas Khoo