1st Edition

Southeast Asia and the Rise of China The Search for Security

By Ian Storey Copyright 2011
384 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

Since the early 1990s and the end of the Cold War, the implications of China's rising power have come to dominate the security agenda of the Asia-Pacific region. This book is the first to comprehensively chart the development of Southeast Asia’s relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from 1949 to 2010, detailing each of the eleven countries’ ties to the PRC and showing how strategic... Read more

Part 1: The Evolution of Southeast Asia-China Relations, 1949-2010  1. Southeast Asia and China and the Cold War: Aversion, Alliance, Accommodation  2. Southeast Asia and China in the 1990s: Engagement and Hedging  3. Southeast Asia and China in the New Century, 2000-2010  Part 2: Mainland Southeast Asia and the PRC  4. Vietnam and China: Steering a Path Between Hostility and Dependence  5. Thailand and China: A Special Relationship  6. Burma/Myanmar and China: From Deference to Dependency  7. Laos and China: New Opportunities Test Old Loyalties  8. Cambodia and China: A Tightening Relationship  Part 3: Maritime Southeast Asia and the PRC  9. Indonesia and China: Ambivalent Relations  10. Malaysia and China: Rhetoric and Reality  11. Singapore and China: The Lion City Engages the Emerging Dragon  12. The Philippines and China: Mischief in the Reefs  13. Brunei and China: Distant Relations  14. East Timor and China: Beijing Looks to Secure Long-Term Interests 

Biography

Ian Storey is a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, and editor of Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs.  He co-edited The China Threat: Perceptions, Myths and Reality (also published by Routledge).

'Ian Storey is an old Asia hand – a senior fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and editor of Contemporary Southeast Asia... His deep background is evident in this book about the foreign policies of Southeast Asian states towards China and China’s stance towards each country... the book is clearly a very useful analysis and compendium of a huge amount of diplomatic history. Anyone trying to understand where Southeast Asian foreign policy has been and why it has changed should refer to this book.' - David Dapice, New Mandala, 2013.