| ID | 113838 |
| Title Proper | SEAFET and ASA |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Tarling, Nicholas |
| Publication | 2012. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The opening paper gives an account - partly drawn from the archives of an outside state, New Zealand - of the ancestors of ASEAN: ASA and SEAFET. ASEAN developed a life of its own. Yet SEAFET and ASA give some hints of its aims and some indications of its methods: the need to restrict the intervention of major outside powers; and the need to avoid the dominance by one substantial regional power, but to allow it due influence. The paper suggests that a strong motive behind the early attempts at a regional association was an attempt to deal with the disparate size and power of one state, Indonesia. If - but only if - its urge to regional primacy could be moderated and accommodated would it be possible to diminish recourse to or opportunity for the intervention of outside powers. |
| `In' analytical Note | East Asia: An International Quaterly Vol. 29, No.2; Jun 2012: p.115-125 |
| Journal Source | East Asia: An International Quaterly Vol. 29, No.2; Jun 2012: p.115-125 |
| Key Words | ASA ; ASEAN ; Indonesia ; Outside Powers ; Regional Primacy |