Critical Position of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is critically positioned at the juncture of the ongoing great-power competition. This region has already faced the heat of the Cold war bloc politics and so the drawbacks of balancing and bandwagoning. The change in the world order from bipolar to unipolar and currently in a multipolar world order, has unleashed a lot of geopolitical changes. What is prominently visible in this current world order is that the three great powers i....