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Small States and Hegemonic Competition in Southeast Asia

In the last few decades, Southeast Asia has become generally more peaceful and more prosperous, with progress in economic development, regional cooperation and integration. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), in particular, plays a leading role within and beyond the region in promoting multilateral cooperation in both security and economic matters. All these developments progress amid increasing hegemonic competition between the US and China for regional dominance in the Asia-Pacific region. According to the realist viewpoint of international politics, Southeast Asian states can do nothing but choose sides at the expense of international political autonomy in order to maintain their national interests. However, in this book Chih-Mao Tang argues that in fact there exists an opportunity for Southeast Asian states to simultaneously reinforce their military security, economic development and international political autonomy in face of the USChina hegemonic competition.

Drawing on the ideas of power transition theory and recent works of capitalist peace, Tang argues that small states can exploit the competition between great powers to make economic gains and ensure security while maintaining their autonomy. He outlines the necessity of cooperation among these small states and of economic liberalization for the effectiveness of these reinforcing dynamics, applying policy and econometric analyses to a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data.

Chih-Mao Tang is Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Globalization and Peace Research in the Department of Political Science, Soochow University, Taiwan.

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Small States and Hegemonic Competition in Southeast Asia

Pursuing Autonomy, Security and Development amid Great Power Politics

Chih-Mao Tang

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Names: Tang, Chih-Mao, author.

Title: Small states and hegemonic competition in Southeast Asia : pursuing autonomy, security and development amid great power politics / Chih-Mao Tang.

Description: New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 136 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017054719| ISBN 9781138672321 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315562599 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Security, InternationalSoutheast Asia. | Southeast Asia

Politics and government21st century. | Southeast AsiaForeign relations

21st century. | Southeast AsiaEconomic policy21st century. | Great powers. | States, Small.

Classification: LCC JZ6009.S644 T364 2018 | DDC 327.1/120959dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017054719

ISBN: 978-1-138-67232-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-56259-9 (ebk)

Typeset in Galliard

by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear

For my parents:

Tang Ching-Fu and Tang Wei Chin-Chih

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I owe a debt of gratitude to many individuals and institutions, including the Department of Government at the University of Essex, the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies at the Academia Sinica, the Department of Political Science at the Soochow University, Taiwan, and my publishers at Routledge. I also thank the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, for its generous support to this book project with a two-year research grant (MOST 1032410-H-031069-MY2). Among individuals, I particularly thank Kristian Gleditsch for his excellent and supportive supervision to my doctoral study and continuous advice afterward, Xun Cao, Han Dorussen, and Hugh Ward for their helpful advice on my doctoral study, and Cheng-yi Lin and Yu-shan Wu for their generous mentoring and encouragement in pursuit of my academic career. I also feel grateful to my colleagues, particularly Shiow-Duan Hawang and Bih-Rong Liu, and the administrative staff in the Department of Political Science, Soochow University. Finally, I thank my parents and dedicate this book to them.

AC	ASEAN Community
ACFTA	ASEANChina Free Trade Area
AEC	ASEAN Economic Community
AFTA	ASEAN Free Trade Area
AIIB	Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
AMM	ASEAN Ministers Meeting
APEC	Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
ASEAN	The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASEAN-PMC	ASEAN Post-Ministerial conference
ARF	ASEAN Regional Forum
BTA	Bilateral Trade Agreement
CINC	composite index of national capability
COC	Code of Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea
COW	Correlates of War
CPV	Communist Party of Vietnam
DOC	Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea
DOTS	Direction of Trade Statistics

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