Entre as pegadas do dragão e os mapas do Sudeste Asiático: as relações entre Beijing e ASEAN no campo da segurança regional

Abstract

This dissertation has as objective to explain if and how the regional dynamics would impact the foreign policy decisions of States. To do this, we will first take Amitav Acharya's Regionalism Agenda as a basis for working on this issue, given its possibilities for our chosen hypothesis and theme to be addressed in a more complete way. Secondly, we will move forward to ASEAN's understanding of the disputes in the South China Sea, focusing first on understanding the ASEAN formation process and then on its Regional Security Agenda that permeates the thinking about these conflicts. Finally, we will look at China's relationship with ASEAN, trying to understand how Beijing addresses this issue of the South China Sea and how it alters its view on this conflict after the 1990s using the methodological basis provided by Regionalism Agenda constructed by Amitav Acharya.