Mandalas of Multialignment

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Hedging Bets in Southeast Asia Grand Strategy Spheres and Foreign and Security Policy Web Weaving

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This book generates a new connective approach to analyzing Southeast Asia alignment shifts in grand strategy and foreign and security policy. Drawing on cases across nearly a century – including the Philippines and U.S.-China competition, Vietnam’s multidirectionality after the USSR’s collapse and Thailand’s WWII Japan alliance – it constructs a new Mandalas of Multialignment approach and develops an original Balance of Alignment model rooted in neoclassical realism to explain how states manage alignment challenges. Looking ahead, the book charts out how Southeast Asian states can weave their own alignment webs beyond binaries of great power competition and across spheres of their own influences through a new Connective Alignment Management process.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-04-27
Mått148 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor289
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789819575299

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Dr. Prashanth Parameswaran is a senior columnist with The Diplomat magazine and holds fellowships with the Institute for Indo-Pacific Security and American University. Born and raised in Southeast Asia, he is also an instructor at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute and an advisor at the consultancy BowerGroupAsia. His research focuses on Southeast Asia geopolitics and geoeconomics, U.S. Asia policy and foreign and security issues, with projects across all 11 countries in Southeast Asia and over 2,000 published articles. His book Elusive Balances: Shaping U.S. Southeast Asia Strategy, developed an original framework based on neoclassical realism to examine major power commitments.

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Puzzle in Southeast Asia Alignment Behavior.- Chapter 2: The Alignment Challenge in Southeast Asia Grand Strategies.- Chapter 3: The Argument: Mandalas of Multialignment.- Chapter 4: Chapter 4: Japan-Thailand World War Two Alliance and Bamboo Diplomacy.- Chapter 5: Chapter 5: China-Indonesia Cold War Axis and Free and Active Foreign Policy.- Chapter 6: Anglo-Malaysia Post-Withdrawal Renegotiation, the FPDA and Neutrality.- Chapter 7: Russia-Vietnam Recalibration and Post-Cold War Multidirectionality.- Chapter 8: US-Philippine “Separation” Bid, China Competition and Independent Foreign Policy.- Chapter 9: Navigating the Alignment Challenge in Southeast Asia Grand Strategy.