ABSTRACT East Asia has many distinctive features that set it apart from other comparable regions, not least attitudes to regional development and cooperation. Despite a growing number of regional initiatives in East Asia, however, they are generally distinguished by their ineffectiveness. It is entirely possible that ‘institutional balancing’, like its more well-known power balancing counterpart, is designed not to facilitate but to prevent something from happening. The sort of ‘multilateralism 1.0’ developed by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has a lot to answer for in this regard: having established its own pattern of institutional effectiveness ASEAN's ‘leadership’ has caused it to be replicated under the new wave of ‘multilateralism 2.0’. Consequently, I suggest that not only is China very comfortable with the idea of a rather feeble and ineffective institutional architecture, but the USA is also unlikely to do anything to change this picture, especially under a Trump administration that is highly skeptical about the efficacy of multilateral institutions at the best of times.

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亚洲的竞争性多边倡议：质量与数量

摘要东亚具有许多独特的特征，使其与其他可比地区区别开来，尤其是对地区发展与合作的态度。尽管东亚地区采取了越来越多的区域性举措，但总体而言，它们的无效性使其卓尔不群。像其更著名的力量平衡对手一样，“制度平衡”完全有可能不是为了促进而是为了防止某些事情发生。东南亚国家联盟（ASEAN）开发的这种“多边主义1.0”在这方面有很多答案：建立了自己的体制有效性模式ASEAN的“领导权”已使其在新的浪潮中得以复制“多边主义2.0”。所以，