A South Korean Perspective on the Potential Contributions and Limitations of the ADMM-Plus

[...]intra-institutional balancing in the ADMM-Plus would take the cooperative framework nowhere and could eventually cause the institution's failure or drive it to a dead end.1 There is an opportunity for the ADMM-Plus, however, to become a truly meaningful multilateral framework. Since the end of the Cold War, Asia has been flooded with various proposals for multilateral cooperation, some of which are security-related. Regional countries, including those in the ADMM-Plus framework, do not have much experience with multilateral military cooperation-defense cooperation in East Asia has long been either bilateral or "minilateral" at best. [...]as South Korea exemplifies, collaboration has been led predominantly by the United States under its hub-and-spoke system.\n The first type, which includes the well-known Shangri-La Dialogue and the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP), does not have decision-making power within individual governments.