ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines some of the different ways that regional institutions and especially ASEAN have been conceptualized as responding to Asia’s changing great power conditions. The discussion offers some starting points for thinking about the role of regional institutions in Southeast Asian strategies. It then turns to Asia’s changing great power conditions, with an eye to drawing connections between the past and the present, and the different strategic effects associated with past periods. It concludes with some additional observations about institutional strategies.
