Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta (Aug 2012)
ASEAN Role in Asia-Pacific Regional Architecture Building
Abstract
The collapse of the bipolar system caused significant transformations in world’s political and strategic balance of powers, particularly had an impact on the Asia- Pacific nations and created “political vacuum” in the region. In Asia-Pacific crash of the bipolar confrontation stimulated internal processes. Mostly «vacuum» was filled by ASEANcentered new regional architecture.
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