Hedging is typically understood as a middle path straddling balancing/bandwagoning, the
military/economic, and United States/China. This conventional understanding of hedging …

Defence diplomacy represents a notable paradox. On the one hand, it is a cooperative
activity to build strategic and moralistic trust between states and thus positively shape the …

This article contributes to ongoing debates on security community-building in international
relations (IR) by focusing on the productive role of discursive contestation in this process. It …

The paper explores whether the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has
matured from a weak cooperative arrangement in its early days into a functioning security …

Recent studies of ASEAN have focused on why ASEAN community building has
emphasised liberal norms such as human rights, democracy promotion and a commitment to …

China is an important security concern for the United States and its allies, including the Five
Eyes intelligence-sharing group that is sometimes described as the core of the …

Singapore's political system is sometimes criticized by proponents of liberal democracy as
being highly authoritarian and inhibiting of individual freedom. Yet, as the recent 2015 …

It is generally understood that ASEAN has proclaimed itself as a security community since it
has a strong commitment to the culture of peace among its members. ASEAN remains a …

This article is concerned with groups of states that do not fight each other and, moreover,
hold stable expectations that war between them is unlikely to occur in the future. Such no …

From a post-Deutschian perspective, common institutions may aggravate the problem of
conflicts and violence, but they can also be part of its solution. Contradictions and conflicts …