Alexander Korolev on the prospects for the ASEAN development in the era of "the new bipolarity" for the Valdai Discussion Club (22.09.2020)

Alexander Korolev, Junior Research Fellow at CCEIS, published an article “Asia’s Mouse Deer Diplomacy: ASEAN in the New Bipolar Era” at the Valdai Discussion Club.

In the article Alexander :

• describes what challenges and opportunities the US-China rivalry presents to ASEAN;
• explains how and why the Association of Southeast Asian Nations managed to develop a kind of immunity to survival in a bipolar environment;
• describes the new context of ASEAN member-states development;
• predicts how the ASEAN member-states' development strategy, dubbed "Asian mouse deer diplomacy", will develop in the future.

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