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.
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. Southeast Asia: Geopolitics, Contestation and Instability - Laura Southgate and Nicholas Khoo 2. From Sentimental Imperialists to Gritty Power Broker: The United States in Post-war and Post-colonial Southeast Asia – Alex Tan and Juhn Chris P. Espia3. China and Southeast Asia in the era of post-Cold War US-China rivalry – Chung Chienpeng4. Japan in the midst of the US-China Rivalry: Becoming a ‘Strategic Alternative’ to Southeast Asia – Bhubhindar Singh 5. India’s Engagement of Southeast Asia: The Act East Policy – GVC Naidu 6. Australia and Southeast Asia – Andrea Benvenuti 7. Tilting to the Indo-Pacific: United Kingdom’ Reengagement of Southeast Asia – Laura Southgate and Nicholas Khoo 8. The European Union in Southeast Asia: Opportunities and Limitations of Inter-regionalism - Frederick KliemConclusion: Southeast Asia at a Crossroads - Laura Southgate and Nicholas Khoo
