Cooperative Security and the Balance of Power in ASEAN and the ARF

by Ralf Emmers

In this book, Emmers addresses the key question: to what extent may the balance of power play a part in such cooperative security arrangements and in the calculations of the participants of ASEAN and the ART? He investigates the role of the power balance in detailed examinations of the creation of the forum, ASEAN's response to the Indochina conflict and the South China sea dispute.

214 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Anh Nguyen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Suffer from trying to force the evidence into theory and not the other way around. Also draw most of the arguments from Liefer.

[mharipin · Rating 3 out of 5]

bring the old paradigmn to its new relevance. Emmers discusses ASEAN and ARF as an example of 'balance of power' theory