After Liberalism? The Future of Hedging and the Chimerica Choice for Southeast Asia

In recent years, questions have been posed regarding the durability of the current rules-based (liberal) international order and what this means for the practice of international relations. In this talk, Benjamin Ho, an assistant professor from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) argues that Southeast Asia countries are increasingly challenged in their ability to hedge and would have to make some tough choices between US and China (Chimerica) in their foreign relations. To this end, domestic myths will become increasingly important in