Soft Balancing in the Indo-Asia-Pacific: From ASEAN to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

by Alica Kizekova

Alica Kizekova investigates the use of regional organizations and soft balancing by great and middle powers in the Indo-Asia-Pacific. To test the validity of soft-balancing behaviour, the case of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is compared to the soft-balancing cooperation within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) when dealing with a re-emerging China of the early 1990s. China's regional policies with respect to disputed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472428854
• ISBN13: 9781472428851
• Release Date: November 2027
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.2"