This paper seeks to explain the contradictory pattern of cooperation within ASEAN. To do so, it starts from a conventional empirical puzzle: Why do ASEAN member states translate their intent of regional cooperation into institutional designs that are incapable of coping with those problems the...

The purpose of this research paper is to understand China's underlying intentions in their multilateral cooperation with ASEAN on the Spratlys and Paracels islands of the South China Sea. The lingering disputes in the area are a destabilizing factor to the contenders, the region and in fact...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is considered as one of the successful regional cooperations and has played a remarkable role in regional, and potentially global, order through its principles of consensus, non-interference, and peaceful resolution of conflicts, providing platform for...

The challenges of a polycentric world necessitate new ways of addressing global problems. Of late, strategic partnerships have become prominent features in the foreign profiles of international actors. They can be seen as a practice of cooperation, and can be further broken down to patterned...

The Northeast region had been part of the South West silk route that connected the region to China through Tibet. It is therefore no surprise that the region has been portrayed as natural adjunct to India’s neighbourhood in the east. The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 reduced the...

Since the Korean War of 1950–53, the security architecture of the region previously referred to as the “Asia-Pacific” has been based on a US-led sys­tem of bilateral alliances known as the “hub-and-spokes” system. A multi­lateral system of collective defence, similar to NATO in...