TY  - BOOK
AU  - LAI Yew Meng
TI  - Structural sources of Malaysia's South China Sea policy: power uncertainties and small-state hedging
PY  - 2021///
KW  - MALAYSIA
KW  -  DEFENCE WHITE PAPER
KW  - SOUTHEAST ASIA
KW  -  RELATIONS
KW  - SOUTH CHINA SEA
KW  -  POLICY
KW  - SMALL STATE
KW  -  HEDGING
N2  - It argues that Malaysia's 'light-hedging' approach is primarily a smaller-state's response to growing systemic pressure arising from power asymmetry, rivalry, and uncertainties.  Focusing on Malaysia's South China Sea (SCS) policy, the essay analyzes how the growing US-China animosity has led the small state to view the SCS imbroglio not just a territorial issue but more a matter of big-power rivalry with geopolitical roots. Like other smaller states in the Indo-Pacific region, Malaysia has long considered power asymmetry and power rivalry as structural conditions over which it has little control
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2020.1856329
ER  -