This book provides a comparative assessment of the material and
ideational contributions of five countries to the regional
architecture of post-Cold War Asia. In contrast to the usual
emphasis placed on the role and centrality of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Asia's multilateral architecture
and its component institutions, this book argues that the four
non-ASEAN countries of interest here 3/4 Australia, Japan, China
and the United States 3/4 and Indonesia have played and continue to
play an influential part in determining the shape and substance of
Asian multilateralism from its pre-inception to the present. The
work does not contend that existing scholarship overstates ASEAN's
significance to the successes and failures of Asia's multilateral
enterprise. Rather, it claims that the impact of non-ASEAN
stakeholders in innovating multilateral architecture in Asia has
been understated. Whether ASEAN has fared well or poorly as a
custodian of Asia's regional architecture, the fact remains that
the countries considered here, notwithstanding their present
discontent over the state of that architecture, are key to
understanding the evolution of Asian multilateralism. This book
will be of much interest to students of Asian politics,
international organisations, security studies and IR more
generally.
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