2015/16 IPS-Nathan Lectures: Lecture III (Southeast Asia and ASEAN)

The series of 2015/16 IPS-Nathan Lectures is titled “Dealing with an Ambiguous World”.
The third lecture will deal with ASEAN, and US-China competition in Southeast Asia. It will examine ASEAN’s strengths and weaknesses in maintaining order, some of ASEAN’s key concepts of regional security and its attempts to shape a new security architecture for the region. In this context, it will analyse some of the broad underlying factors in the South China Sea disputes, the interests of the US and China that are engaged in the South China Sea and the challenges this poses for ASEAN.


Downloads

• Report on Lecture III: ASEAN & US-China Competition in Southeast Asia
• Speech by Mr Bilahari Kausikan
• 2015/16 IPS-Nathan Lecture Series: Lecture III by Mr Bilahari Kausikan (Soundcloud)

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Media Coverage

• Channel 8. 2016. 焦点：东南亚和中国貌合神离？. 4月15日
• The Straits Times. 2016. Pavlovian conditioning and ‘correct thinking’ on the South China Sea. 1 April
• 联合早报. 2016. 新加坡巡回大使剖析南中国海争议: 中国要通过收回失去疆土 对内展示中共统治合法性. 3月31日
• The Middle Ground. 2016. Frenemies in the South China Sea?. 31 March
• The New York Times. 2016. One Envoy’s take on China’s hardball diplomacy. 31 March
• The Straits Times. 2016. China ‘trying to become the central Asian power’. 31 March