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183797
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Disaster management provides an avenue for extraregional partners to engage with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its member states, as Southeast Asia is highly exposed to natural hazards. This article examines how China has managed its bilateral and multilateral relations with the region through engagement on disaster management and explores the factors that have shaped the effectiveness of its diplomatic offense in this area. The existing studies point to three issues that can influence the success of disaster diplomacy, which include mobilization, communication, and acceptance. This article argues that China's evolving aid system has led to mixed results of its disaster diplomacy in Southeast Asia. State-centricity enables rapid mobilization and deployment of resources and personnel through official channels for overseas disaster relief missions. Nevertheless, capacity limitations restrict the scope and modality of China's involvement, and institutional constraints affect its communication with the recipient country/organization. Moreover, state-centricity makes China's overseas disaster-related activities susceptible to politics, which adversely impact acceptance by the recipients. The article selects four empirical cases to demonstrate how state-centricity has influenced the outcome of China's disaster diplomacy in Southeast Asia, which include ASEAN, the Philippines, Myanmar, and Indonesia.
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183794
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This special issue seeks to provide a comprehensive and in-depth study on nontraditional security (NTS) issues in China–Southeast Asia relations, which has so far remained an understudied topic in Asian regional affairs. Through this specific angle, the project engages the debate on how China uses its expanding power resources to shape international and regional agendas, co-opt other countries, and induce cooperative behaviors. Specifically, it contributes to a better understanding of China's current interactions with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its ten member states on NTS issues amid increasing salience of NTS threats and heightened tensions arising from traditional security challenges such as territorial disputes and great power rivalry. [End Page 1] While focusing on different NTS problems, the articles in this special issue converge on analyzing the factors that shape the processes and outcomes of NTS cooperation between China and Southeast Asia. This introduction sets the stage for discussion by providing a definition of NTS, an overview of China-ASEAN NTS cooperation, and the common research questions.
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