UK–ASEAN Relations and the Balance of Power in Southeast Asia

Laura Southgate

doi:10.1080/03071847.2022.2158626

UK–ASEAN Relations and the Balance of Power in Southeast Asia

Laura Southgate

Politics, History and International Relations

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Abstract

The UK has adopted a ‘Global Britain’ foreign policy strategy since the 2016 Brexit referendum. This policy seeks to maintain the UK’s standing internationally while strengthening existing global relations. UK relations with Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) form an important component of this new policy. Laura Southgate examines this new impetus to strengthen UK–ASEAN relations following a period of benign neglect towards the region in the immediate post-Cold War period. In particular, she focuses on the potential success of UK strategy as regards to ASEAN, in light of its extended absence from the region and ASEAN’s growing status as a regional and international power.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	64-71
Number of pages	8
Journal	RUSI Journal
Volume	167
Issue number	6-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03071847.2022.2158626
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2023

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© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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United kingdom
ASEAN
foreign policy
Indo-Pacific Tilt

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