TY  - BOOK
AU  - GILSON Julie
TI  - Strategic regionalism in East Asia
PY  - 2007///
KW  - EAST ASIA
KW  - REGIONAL STABILITY
KW  - REGIONAL SECURITY
N2  - The United States, China and Japan are often portrayed as dominating East Asia and being in a condition of perpetual potential conflict. This paper suggests that this is not necessarily the case; instead East Asia now has increased significance as a region per se in the foreign policy agendas of the three powers and enabling a form of regional joint leadership. ASEAN, it is said, has important roles in acting as a balancer of trilateral activity,  through its interconnectedness, and in providing a basis of normative values
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