DOI: 10.60053/md.2023.5852.78-95 ISSN:

Southeast Asia in the New Cold War

Martin Dimitrov

The article analyses ASEAN’s relations with the two major rivals for influence in Southeast Asia and the whole world. It offers a brief overview of ASEAN’s experience of balancing rival great powers since its inception, as well as the current prospects of it becoming part of either the American or Chinese strategies in their struggle for global predominance. It formulates predictions about the near-future dynamics that will shape the region of Southeast Asia in the context of escalating Sino-American rivalry.

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