Reengaging with Southeast Asia, Steering the Momentum: Factors Leading to Active American Foreign Policytowards Southeast Asia During the First Obama Administration and the Roleof President Obama in the Reengagement Policy Process
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This article sets out to further an understanding of the factors leading to active foreign policy of the US towards Southeast Asia during the first Obama administration and of a role played by President Obama in the reengagement policy process. While the rise of China is considered a major factor leading to the US reengagement in Southeast Asia, the structure of Southeast Asian multilateralism, a call for American reengagement from Southeast Asian leaders, and a need to concludethe Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP),are mutually reinforcing. In terms of the making and the execution of the reengagement policy, while President Obama was a follower in the policy-making process by having his peer, played a greater role in policy initiations in office, he was an "active" type of follower who kept tracking a progress of the policy and played a prominent role as an "energetic executor" in the policy-implementing process.
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Jittiang, B. (2017). Reengaging with Southeast Asia, Steering the Momentum: Factors Leading to Active American Foreign Policytowards Southeast Asia During the First Obama Administration and the Roleof President Obama in the Reengagement Policy Process. Political Science and Public Administration Journal, 5(1), 1–14. Retrieved from https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/polscicmujournal/article/view/76996
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