Thailand and ASEAN Centrality Geopolitics
Keywords:
Thailand, ASEAN, Geopolitics, Indo-PacificAbstract
The paper will argue that although Thailand has its own national geostrategic framework ranged from (1) exploiting “buck passing” and buffer states with “mini” proxy warfare (2) offshore balancing, and (3) international organization like UN, whereas ASEAN is a new regional architecture had been developed quietly and continually. But with natural development of ASEAN it will fit with the future geostrategic framework of Thailand, albeit a requirement to get the deeper rethink of ASEAN architecture to address the coming challenges.
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