The Impact of South China Sea Dispute on ASEAN Centrality
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ASEAN centrality strategy is the core of ASEAN in relations with external countries. especially great power also known as ASEAN as regional architecture. The main characteristic of such strategies ASEAN is the center of regional relations networks. Playing a leading role through institutions initiated by ASEAN as a facilitator of negotiations by providing an assortment of multilateralism consultative mechanisms. ASEAN assumes the prime node in the regional architecture, ensuring that it would not be marginalized by other emerging regional arrangements and as a central unity among ASEAN member states. The status of the core of ASEAN has been evident since the promulgation of the ASEAN Charter in 2008. However, ASEAN centrality is being challenged by the conflict in the South China Sea between some ASEAN members and China. This study, uses the constructivism approach and argues that conflict between ASEAN and China in the South China Sea has led to a lack of unity within ASEAN due to expressing different opinions between members even making the solution to such problems cannot be initiated and implemented using ASEAN as the center. The main case study is that in 2012 ASEAN was unable to issue a Joint Statement of The 45th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Cambodia. (Caballero-Anthony, 2022).
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