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Chapter 4
Analysis and Recommendations
Introduction
F rom the time of ancient Greece created an economic global network that
was sustainable and persistent. On the
through World War II, when a
rising power met an established
power, war resulted roughly three out of other hand, the Soviet Union resorted
mostly to military capacity building that
Implications to ASEAN
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every four times. However, the destructive was not sustainable. The West adapted
powers of contemporary weapons mean to post World War II geo-strategy and won,
that both US and China are likely to falter while the Soviets remained stuck to the
if they follow this historical path to old ways and lost.
great power dominance. Consequently,
the route to becoming or remaining a More pertinent examples can also be
hegemonic power is by following the seen in our area of interest; the South China
Evolving Geo-Strategic Matrix in South China Sea:
economic path to achieve dominance. Sea. Post World War II Japan became
22 This is a fundamental shift in the way major world player without a strong military.
the geo-strategy works in the world of our South Korea, pursued economic priorities
times. To exemplify it, we can look at over domestic military needs and leap
the Cold War which displayed that the frogged North Korea by lengths. Indonesia
dominant economic strategy was the distanced itself from its claimed territorial
decisive factor in achievement of final claims in the region, focused on economic
outcome. The economic aid and development and became a prominent
capacity building programs starting stake holder in ASEAN. China introduced
with the Marshal Plan and later the major cuts to the military budget as a
institution-building like the World Bank, percent of GDP, avoided active engagement
the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in border disputes and focused on
and World Trade Organization (WTO) etc economic growth.
33 Graham Allison, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? (Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt; First Edition (May 30, 2017)
