1. Regimes for cooperative security : the formation and institutional evolution of ASEAN and the ARF -- 2. The role of the balance of power factor within and beyond regimes for cooperative security -- 3. The balance of power factor and the denial of intra-mural hegemony : ASEAN's early years and its enlargement to include Brunei in 1984 -- 4. The balance of power and extra-mural hegemony : ASEAN's response to the Third Indochina Conflict -- 5. The Post-Cold War regional security context : the role of the balance of power factor within the ARF -- 6. ASEAN's Post-Cold War involvement in the South China Sea dispute : the relevance of associative and balance of power dimensions -- Conclusion

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