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

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.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03071847.2022.2158626
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Politics, History and International Relations
Aston University (General)
Additional Information: © 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.
Uncontrolled Keywords: United kingdom,ASEAN,foreign policy,Indo-Pacific Tilt,Political Science and International Relations
Publication ISSN: 1744-0378
Last Modified: 02 Dec 2024 08:46
Date Deposited: 22 Sep 2023 07:23
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2023-02-01
Accepted Date: 2022-12-11
Authors: Southgate, Laura (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-6011-7492)

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