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Asean – a move towards regionalism / Chakrabarty, Manas; Saha, Sumita

Chakrabarty, Manas	Article
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The motivations for the birth of ASEAN were so that its members’ governing elite could concentrate on nation building, the common fear of communism, reduced faith in or mistrust of external powers in the 1960s, and a desire for economic development. In the international political scenario, the ASEAN is the successor of ASA (Association of Southeast Asia) which was formed in 1961. It consisted of a group of countries including Philippines, Malaysia, and Thailand.

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ASEAN ; Regionalism ; Thailand ; Malaysia ; Philippines ; Communism ;
ASA ; International Political Scenario

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SEAFET and ASA / Tarling, Nicholas

Tarling, Nicholas	Journal Article
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2012.

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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.

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ASEAN ; Indonesia ; ASA ; Outside Powers ; Regional Primacy

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