6. Tightrope walking over the sea of trouble: Vietnam’s foreign policy, maritime strategy, and relations with china and the united states

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Overview
6. 1. Southeast Asia: thriving in the shadow of giants 15
7. 2. Asean’s external policy: caught between the united states and china 50
8. 3. Nontraditional security threats in asean and beyond 79
9. Part II. Southeast Asian perspectives
10. 4. Pragmatic equidistance: how Indonesia manages its great power relations 113
11. 5. Economic and strategic trends in southeast Asia: the view from Singapore 136
12. 6. Tightrope walking over the sea of trouble: Vietnam’s foreign policy, maritime strategy, and relations with china and the united states 155
13. 7. Not between Scylla and Charybdis: Malaysia’s relations with china and the united states 194
14. 8. The mainland minus one: power dynamics in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar 215
15. Part III. The outside powers
16. 9. Japan’s relationship with southeast Asia: the perpetual potential partner 239
17. 10. India and southeast Asia: from looking to acting east policy 267
18. 11. China’s economic approach to asean 305
19. 12. China and the united states in southeast Asia 333
20. 13. U.s. security strategy and southeast Asia 359
21. 14. U.s. policy options in the south china sea 389
22. Conclusion 423
23. About the contributors 439
24. Index 443