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      <JournalTitle>ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES</JournalTitle>
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      <Volume-Issue>Volume 1, Issue 2</Volume-Issue>
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      <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic>
      <IssueLanguage>English</IssueLanguage>
      <Season>Dec 2020 - Jan 2021</Season>
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        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>12</Month>
        <Day>25</Day>
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      <ArticleType>International Relations</ArticleType>
      <ArticleTitle>Multilateralism, Multipolarity and ASEAN: A Re-Appraisal</ArticleTitle>
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      <ArticleLanguage>English</ArticleLanguage>
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      <FirstPage>167</FirstPage>
      <LastPage>186</LastPage>
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          <FirstName>Y Yagama</FirstName>
          <LastName>Reddy</LastName>
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      <DOI>10.47362/EJSSS.2020.1203</DOI>
      <Abstract>The proliferation of regional organizations entailing overlapping membership of countries, though defy the spirit of regionalism, acts as laboratories for multilateral negotiations. Understandably, regional organizations serve as a tool towards the formation of multilateral bodies as well as conduits on the road to multilateralism. The regionalism-oriented-multilateralism assumes to be functional and action-oriented one. Yet, the support for the multilateralism and its principles has been shallow on account of the gap between the underestimated limitations vis-__ampersandsignagrave;-vis of overestimated potentials of multilateralism. In the midst of challenges that would render multilateralism obsolete, there are pertinent appeals made towards the end of reforming it. Contextual relevance would have it that ASEAN a typical regional organization moved onto the stage of multilateralism. Notwithstanding the implications of the ASEAN-based multilateral bodies, ASEAN perplexingly has met with challenges stemmed out of the process of emerging multilateralism 2.0, a more open rather flexible system than the state-centric classical multilateral organisations which signify a closed system. This paper seeks to examine the ASEAN’s role in the multilateral architecture vis-__ampersandsignagrave;-vis the multilateralism 2.0’ driven by major powers and assess the need for ASEAN to get itself adapted to the transformation in the offing.</Abstract>
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      <Keywords>Regionalism,Multilateralism,Multipolarity,ASEAN,ARF,ADMM Plus,Southeast Asia,India,NORMS,Geopolitics</Keywords>
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