Economic Diplomacy of Southeast Asian States and the Remaking of the Regional Security Order

    Abstract：After the Cold War, efforts to mold the East Asian regional security order came from two directions：the first is found in the remnants of the Yalta system; the second is the economic diplomacy of Southeast Asian states. First, while on one hand, China and Russia have worked through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to build security cooperation, on the other hand the U.S.has strengthened its system of unilateral and multilateral alliances using the U.S.-Japanese alliance as a foundation. Therefore the remnants of the Yalta System have increased considerably in terms of their level of organization.In addition, Southeast Asian state themselves have engaged in economic diplomacy through platforms such as the “10+” framework, APEC and the Asia-Europe Summit. These efforts have been rather successful in pulling most great powers and regional powers into the East Asia region and in helping to remake the political and security orders of Post-Cold War East Asia.

    About the Authors：Yan Liang is a Lecturer in the Zhou Enlai School at Government of Nankai University