Japan–US Union and Southeast Asia: Getting closer to cement the status quo?

... slumps. At the same time, Calder and Ye emphasize the gap between Eastern Asian regionalism and that European, which is manifested in the predominance of informal and apolitical networks. This “soft institutionalism” is especially apparent in ASEAN and it cannot be ruled out that the outcome of the convergence between the US–Japan Alliance with Southeast Asia will encourage the rationalism dynamics in the entire East Asian region, including in the northeast. On the other hand, it was mentioned in the report that Japan is no longer the only major nation in Northeast Asia that has active operations ...