No. 277: South-East Asia: A Hotspot in Great Power Rivalry

Author(s): Linda Maduz, Simon Stocker
Series Editor(s): Lisa Watanabe, Julian Kamasa, Fabien Merz, Névine Schepers, Benno Zogg
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 277
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2021

In South-East Asia, the emerging great power China is challenging the supremacy of the US, which is clinging to its leading role in the region. Although the countries of South-East Asia agree that the great power conflict is harming them as individual countries and as a region, they are, nevertheless, seeking mainly selective, country-specific solutions in response to their shrinking room for maneuver.

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Southeast Asia in the Area of Tension