1st Edition

Hedging Strategies in Southeast Asia ASEAN, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam and their Relations with China

By Alfred Gerstl Copyright 2022
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

Introducing a re-conceptualized comprehensive hedging framework, this book analyses the relations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam with China in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the South China Sea dispute. The author argues that ASEAN and the three Southeast Asian governments pursue a hedging strategy towards... Read more

1. The Belt and Road Initiative, Southeast Asia, and the South China Sea – an overview

2. The theoretical-methodological framework: A re-conceptualized hedging concept

3. ASEAN’s hedging strategy towards China

4. Malaysia’s hedging strategy towards China under Mahathir Mohamad 2.0

5. The Philippines' hedging strategy towards China under Rodrigo Duterte

6. Vietnam’s hedging strategy towards China

7. Conclusion: Similarities and differences of the four hedging strategies

Biography

Alfred Gerstl is Associate Professor at the Department of Asian Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic and Adjunct Professor at the University of Vienna, Austria. A specialist on International Relations in the Indo- Pacific, notably on Southeast Asia and China’s rise, symbolized in the Belt and Road Initiative, he is also President of the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS), a transnational think tank.