ASEAN As Pivotal Actor: Balancing Centrality And Indo-Pacific

ASEAN As Pivotal Actor: Balancing Centrality And Indo-Pacific – Analysis

Joel Ng

Eurasia Review

19 August 2020

This article first appeared as an RSIS Commentary, view the original commentary in the source above.

“ASEAN Centrality” has previously been defined as ASEAN being the “least objectionable” actor to lead. However, in a wider Indo-Pacific of resident competing powers, ASEAN may well be rethought of as the pivotal actor to enable their goals to be accomplished, wrote RSIS Research Fellow Joel Ng in a commentary.

Joel Ng is a Research Fellow with the Centre for Multilateralism Studies (CMS), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. This commentary is based on his observations from a three-day CMS webinar series on “ASEAN’s Outlook on the Indo-Pacific, COVID-19, and the Future of ASEAN Centra

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