Relational peace versus pacific primacy: Configuring US strategy for Asia's regional order

Jackson, Van

doi:10.1111/aspp.12675

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“…The task of building security network depends not only on the efforts of Australia and South Korea, but also on whether the US strategy itself is successful in terms of maintaining regional stability and its hegemonic position in the region. This question is beyond the scope of this article and is discussed by Jackson (2023) in this special issue. Policymakers in Australia and South Korea need to comprehend each other's positions, capabilities, and options in the regional security network because, by doing so, the two countries create a ripple effect that contributes to the overarching security order in the region beyond the security of themselves.…”

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Australian perspective on engaging with South Korea in the Indo‐Pacific

Kim

Raswant

2023

Asian Politics and Policy

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How do the US allies engage with other actors in the US-led Indo-Pacific security order? This article examines this question in the case of Australia. We argue that the regional strategic network is a key consideration for Australia to facilitate its interaction with a target country in the Indo-Pacific. This article analyzes Australia's approach toward South Korea as an example demonstrating the significance of the regional strategic network in shaping Australia's diplomacy. It does so by addressing the following three questions.First, what is Australia's vision for the Indo-Pacific? Second, how does Australia perceive South Korea's role in the Indo-Pacific? Third, how does Australia's Indo-Pacific vision find the relevance of South Korea for Australia's security interests? The article elucidates that Australia's view on South Korea's place in the Indo-Pacific security network influences Australia's interaction with South Korea and consequently plays an integral part in the US-led regional security orderbuilding process.

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Australian perspective on engaging with South Korea in the Indo‐Pacific

Kim

Raswant

2023

Asian Politics and Policy

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“…This is because while it is good at generating ideas that conform to its ideology, its inherent contradictions deliver paradox. These contradictions arise due to the informality of ASEAN [107], which has grown more fractured through its inability to deal with conflictual situations like the civil war in Myanmar and the admission of Papua New Guinea as a member, and where trust across the region is extremely low [108]. As an example, regarding security issues, ASEAN generates contradictory/paradoxical rather than pragmatic solutions [102] concerning terrorism in the region, and there are no mechanisms in place to deal with this [101].…”

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Diagnosing Complex Organisations with Diverse Cultures—Part 2: Application to ASEAN

Rautakivi,

Yolles

2024

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In this paper, the second part of a two-part series, we explore the cultural stability of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The analytical framework adopted, formulated on a background of social cybernetics, uses Mindset Agency Theory (MAT) within a metacybernetic framework. Our exploration involves a thorough investigation of signs pointing to cultural instability, identification of potential pathologies, and the provision of insights into the underlying dynamics within ASEAN. Expanding on the theoretical foundation established in the first part, we explore the notion that regional organisations (ROs) like ASEAN can be viewed as complex adaptive systems with agency. Heterogeneity of RO membership can be both beneficial and detrimental, especially when this delivers cultural diversity. If detrimental, pathologies can arise that affect both ROs’ institutional dynamics and their affiliated regional organisations, a significant interest of this paper. In response to certain cybernetic aspects introduced in part 1 of the research, MAT is shown to be a specialised framework imbued with systemic and reflexive elements. Through this, the analysis sheds light on how an agency’s mindset connects with its behaviour and performance. ROs exhibit coherence in their operations when they successfully achieve adaptive goals. ROs, as agencies defined through a population of state agents, have mutual relationships and are encouraged to pursue shared regional objectives, such as economic growth, social welfare, security, and democracy. However, in highly diverse cultural environments, this poses unique challenges to achieving and maintaining cultural stability. The analysis scrutinises ASEAN’s behaviour, relating it to manifestations of cultural instability, and deduces conditions that encompass an inability to undertake collective action, covert narcissism, and a lack of authority. Employing MAT as a diagnostic tool to comprehend ASEAN’s intricate nature, the paper concludes with practical recommendations aimed at enhancing ASEAN’s cultural health and sustainability. The ultimate vision is to foster a more integrated and proactive regional entity.

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“…This is because while it is good at generating ideas that conform to its ideology, its inherent contradictions deliver paradox. These contradictions arise due to the informality of ASEAN [299], which has grown more fractured through its inability to deal with conflictual situations like the civil war in Myanmar or the admission of Papua New Guinea as a member, and where trust across the region is extremely low [300]. As an example, with security issues, ASEAN generates contradictory/paradoxical rather than pragmatic solutions [294], for instance concerning terrorism in the region, and where there are no mechanisms in place to deal with this [296].…”

Section: Asean Personalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union

Rautakivi¹,

Yolles²

2023

Preprint

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Regional organisations (ROs) are important in that they can enable states in their regions to pros-per and develop for improvement. Interest here lies in the European Union (EU) and the Associa-tion of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Their political development involves complex process-es for collective actions involving ingroup member RO states. To explore development, we firstly examine the rise of both the EU and ASEAN. The literature gives some attention to the behaviour-alist political approach to explain developmental differences using social organisation theory, often in terms of the Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft paradigm of Tönnies. However, here we adopt a social psychology approach that distinguishes between operative structure (which directly determines behaviour), and substructure (housing normative personality deemed to be responsible for behav-ioural imperatives). This enables a relationship to be made between the Tönnies paradigm and the Collectivism-Individualism paradigm of Triandis. The theoretical approach adopted involves a complex adaptive systems model deriving from metacybernetics, and this also delivers Mindset Agency Theory as a qualitative methodology. Consistent with the general view, it is shown that the EU is more or less a coherent rational organisation, while ASEAN is more idealistic delivering pragmatic paradox. In particular, ASEAN is frequently descried as an organisation with contra-dictions, and for this reason its pathologies are explored in some detail

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Relational peace versus pacific primacy: Configuring US strategy for Asia's regional order

Cited by 5 publications

References 31 publications

Australian perspective on engaging with South Korea in the Indo‐Pacific

Australian perspective on engaging with South Korea in the Indo‐Pacific

Diagnosing Complex Organisations with Diverse Cultures—Part 2: Application to ASEAN

Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union

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