“The “English School”, South East Asia, and Indonesia: Locating and Defending Productive “middle ground”

Authors

  • Linda Quayle PhD graduand, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Australia. GPO Box 793, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18196/hi.2013.0031.92-105

Keywords:

English School, middle ground, Southeast Asia, Pluralist

Abstract

This article elaborates that a pluralist English School perspective offers a number of possibilities that are useful in analysing SEA. Its prime contribution is to help locate the middle ground that is often missing from theoretical debates. Thus, it can bridge parallel discourses, whether they be realist and constructivist, or realist and liberal. It can also provide a socially oriented understanding of the role of great powers – an understanding that provides a much more subtle interpretation of what Indonesia offers the region, and the challenges it faces there.

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Published

2015-08-22

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