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Asean And Interconnecting Regional Spheres: Lessons For The Indian Ocean Region, Shaun Lin, Carl Grundy-Warr
Asean And Interconnecting Regional Spheres: Lessons For The Indian Ocean Region, Shaun Lin, Carl Grundy-Warr
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In an era of shifting global geopolitical, geostrategic and geo-economic power, ASEAN’s resilience as a regional grouping and its relative success in keeping internal conflicts at bay through various forms of quiet diplomacy and adherence to certain norms and binding principles mean that it may become a force helping to foster peaceful and stronger regional linkages within the eastern frontiers of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). In this article we focus on ASEAN’s growing roles and relations within three key ‘spheres’ of adjoining regional-extra-regional reach, which we identify as the mostly landward Greater Mekong Sphere (GMS), the South China Sea …