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, edited by William Hale and Eberhard Kienle. New York, Tauris Academic Studies, 1997. 294 p.Ball, Desmond. Australia, the US Alliance, and Multilateralism in Southeast Asia. Canberra, Australia, Australian National University, 1997. 17 p.
Book call no.: 355.0310994 B187a
Calder, Kent E. Asia's Deadly Triangle: How Arms, Energy and Growth Threaten to Destabilize Asia-Pacific. London, Nicholas Brealy Publishing, 1996. 253 p.
Author explores the linkage between East Asia's economic growth and its extreme lack of accessible energy resources, and shows how these energy insecurities could lead Asia toward a struggle for offshore oil and the dangers that regional energy dependence on the Middle East may bring.
Book call no.: 355.03305 C146a
Negotiating the Pacific Century: The "New" Asia, the United States and Australia, edited by Roger Bell, Tim McDonald and Alan Tidwell. :St. Leonards, NSW , Allen & Unwin in association with the Australian Centre for American Studies, 1996. 324 p.
Australian-U.S. Relations and the Rise of South-East Asia, by Andrew MacIntyre, pp 66-86.
Book call no.: 327.94 N384
Satoh, Yukio. Policy Coordination for Asia-Pacific Security and Stability. Canberra, Australia, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 1996. 22 p.
Surveys the various mechanisms in the region for inter-state cooperation in the political, economic and security spheres.
Southeast Asia in the New World Order,
edited by David Wurfel and Bruce Burton. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1996. 320 p.Southeast Asian Affairs 1997
. Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, [annual]. 374 p.Abad, M. C. Jr. Re-Engineering ASEAN. Contemporary Southeast Asia 18:237-253 December 1996.
Ba, Alice. The ASEAN Regional Forum. International Journal 52:635-656 Autumn 1997.
By focusing on ASEAN perspectives, this article identifies both external and internal challenges to ASEAN and the notion of "Southeast Asia" and examines how ARF (ASEAN Regional Forum)--a multilateal security dialogue involving ASEAN and 14 other interested powers, including the United States--relates to them.
Bobrow, Davis B. Chan Steve and Reich Simon. Southeast Asian Prospects and Realities: American Hopes and Fears. Pacific Review 9, no. 1:1-30 1996.
Presents five alternative scenarios of development for Southeast Asia. Data on foreign direct investment, trade, and currency valuation provide a basis for understanding the relations among the countries in the region, as well as their relations with major external powers, especially the U. S, Japan, and China.
Bristow, Damon. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Maritime Disputes between Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Member States. RUSI Journal 141:31-37 August 1996.
Chalmers, Malcolm. ASEAN and Confidence Building: Continuity and Change after the Cold War. Contemporary Security Policy 18:36-56 April 1997.
ASEAN played an important role in regional confidence building during the Cold War. This article assesses how successful it has been in adapting this role to the changes in its security environment that have taken place since 1990.
Chan, Gerald. Sudpolitik: The Political Economy of Taiwan's Trade with Southeast Asia. Pacific Review 9:96-113 1996.
In December 1993 the Taiwan government adopted a policy called sudpolitik, aimed at diverting part of Taiwan's trade and investment flows from China to Southeast Asia.
Curry, Robert L. Jr. Challenges of Asymmetry Associated with ASEAN's Evolution to a Larger-Sized Group. Journal of Third World Studies 14:13-36 Spring 1997.
Guoxing, Ji. Energy Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific. Korean Journal of Defense Analysis 8:269-295 Winter 1996.
The entry of China and the ASEAN countries into the ranks of net oil importers will have tremendous impacts on global and regional oil supplies and market conditions. The growing gap between energy supply and demand in the region could easily have destabilizing international and regional consequences and could strain relations among the Asian Pacific countries.
Haseman, John B. ASEAN: Coming of Age. Military Review 77:56-59 May-June 1997.
Hay, Simon J. The 1995 ASEAN Summit: Scaling a Higher Peak. Contemporary Southeast Asia 18:254-274 December 1996
Hiebert, Murray and others. Fly in the Ointment. Far Eastern Economic Review 160:14-15 June 12 1997.
ASEAN's decision to make Burma, Cambodia and Laos members will present multiple dilemmas--for the grouping itself and for its relations with the West.
Hoang Anh Tuan. ASEAN Dispute Management: Implications for Vietnam and an Expanded ASEAN. Contemporary Southeast Asia 18:61-80 June 1996.
Huxley, Tim. Southeast Asia in the Study of International Relations: The Rise and Decline of a Region. Pacific Review, no.2, 9:199-228 1996.
Kapur, Ashok. Asia-Pacific: Towards Development of Bargaining Relations between Great and Minor Powers in the 1990s. Round Table No. 340:441-453 October 1996.
The ending of the Cold War has marked a change in the position of the United States, still the strongest military power in the Asia-Pacific region, from a proactive to a reactive force, unable to pursue its interests unaided.
Ku, Samuel C. Y. The Political Economy of Taiwan's Relations with Southeast Asia: The "Southward Policy." Contemporary Southeast Asia 17:282-297 December 1995.
MacIntyre, Andrew. Pacific Drift: Southeast Asia and the US-Australia Relationship. Pacific Review 9, no.4:607-624 1996.
It is no coincidence that as Australia finds itself being increasingly pulled towards Asia, its traditionally very close relationship with the US is gradually weakening. Article focuses on developments in Southeast Asia and the way they are affecting US and Australian interests in three key policy areas: trade, politics and human rights, and security.
Magno, Francisco A. Environmental Security in the South China Sea Security Dialogue 28:97-112 March 1997.
In the face of increasing transborder security and environmental problems generated by stiff competition for territory and resources in the South China Sea, a security agenda is needed which defines the scope and limits of political authority and resource extraction.
Mahbubani, Kishore. An Asia-Pacific Consensus. Foreign Affairs 76:149-158 September-October 1997.
If the Pacific century is to be pacific and prosperous, the countries of the region must build on common points to lay the groundwork for a community.
Montes, Manuel F. and Magno Francisco A. Trade and Environmental Diplomacy: Strategic Options for ASEAN Pacific Affairs 70:351-372 Fall 1997.
Mutalib, Hussin. At Thirty, ASEAN Looks to Challenges in the New Millenium. Contemporary Southeast Asia 19:74-85 June 1997.
Palmujoki, Eero. EU-ASEAN Relations: Reconciling Two Different Agendas. Contemporary Southeast Asia 19:269-285 December 1997.
Schilling, Walter. Changing Power Structures in the Asia-Pacific Region. Aussenpolitik 48, 2nd quarter:158-176 1997.
Fundamental changes are taking place in the power constellations between the states of Southeast Asia and in associated relationships and structures. China, which is rapidly gaining strength in economic and, as a result, military terms, is emerging as a central factor.
Singh, Hari. Vietnam and ASEAN: The Politics of Accommodation. Australian Journal of International Affairs 51:215-229 July 1997.
Smith, Anthony L. The AFTA-CER Linkage: Forging a New Direction in Relations with ASEAN. New Zealand International Review 22:16-20 September-October 1997.
The growing dialogue between the ASEAN Free-Trade Area (AFTA) and the Australia-New Zealand Closer Economic Relations (CER) Agreement may provide Australia and New Zealand with a back door to ASEAN, giving Australasia the benefits of greater two-way trade with the countries of SE Asia.
Smith, M. L. and Jones D. M. ASEAN, Asian Values and Southeast Asian Security in the New World Order. Contemporary Security Policy 18:126-144 December 1997.
Examines the extent to which ASEAN constitutes a new model for regional cooperation and development. Traces the evolution of ASEAN both in its structure and ideology in order to identify those features that define its distinctive identity.
Sridharan, Kripa. India and ASEAN: The Long Road to Dialogue. Round Table No.340:465-477 October 1996.
Tay, Simon S. C. and Talib Obood. The ASEAN Regional Forum: Preparing for Preventive Diplomacy. Contemporary Southeast Asia 19:252-268 December 1997.
Article considers how the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) should be prepared to exercise preventive diplomacy in order to maintain peace in the region, and the implications of such preparations for the evolution of ARF as an institution.
Valencia, Mark J. Energy and Insecurity in Asia. Survival 39:85-106 Autumn 1997.
If the major regional powers fail to develop cooperative multilateral arrangements in the energy sector, competition over scarce resources could become the catalyst for regional conflict.
Writer, Rashna. Cambodia Unsettles South-East Asia. Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy 25:20 August 1997.
Yergin, Daniel Eklof Dennis and Edwards Jefferson. Fueling Asia's Recovery. Foreign Affairs 77:34-50 March-April 1998.
The immediate effect of Asia's crisis will be an oil shock, but in the longer term, Asia's energy needs will be the problem. But market integration and cooperation will prevent conflict as countries work together to utilize Central and Southeast Asian natural gas reserves.
Young, Peter Lewis. The South China Sea: Conflict Waiting to Occur or Conflict Averted? Asian Defence Journal, pages 17-19 May 1997.
Zhao, Suisheng. Asia-Pacific Regional Multipolarity: From Alliance to Alignment in the Post-Cold War Era. World Affairs 159:183-196 Spring 1997.
The end of the cold war irrevocably altered the distribution of power in Asia-Pacific. Although the new power configuration has not taken its final shape, in strategic terms the vanished superpower bipolarity and China-America-Russia triangle gave way not to unipolarity but to a regional multipolarity.
Pacific Symposium (National Defense University). Multilateral Activities in South East Asia: Pacific Symposium, 1995, edited by Michael W. Everett and Mary A. Somerville. Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, DC, National Defense University Press, 1995. 269 p.
China's Constructive Role in South East Asia, by Peng Guangqian, pp 73-86
Book call no.: 337.159 P117
Southeast Asia in the New World Order, edited by David Wurfel and Bruce Burton. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1996. 320 p.
China and Southeast Asia: The Challenge of Economic Competition, by Robert S. Ross, pp 142-164.
Book call no.: 320.959 S727
Studeman, Michael William. Dragon in the Shadows: Calculating China's Advances in the South China Sea. Monterey, CA, 1997. 138 p. (Thesis (M.A. in NSA))
Doc. call no.: M-U 42525 S933d
Sutter, Robert G. China-Southeast Asia Relations: Trends, Issues, and Implications for the United States. Washington, DC, Library of Congress, 1997. 15 p. (Report. Congressional Research Service.)
Doc. call no.: M-U 42953-1 no. 97-553 F
Wilhelm, Alfred D, Jr. China and Security in the Asian Pacific Region Through 2010. Alexandria, VA, Center for Naval Analyses, March 1996. 93 p. (CRM / Center for Naval Analyses)
Doc. call no.: M-U 31914-40 no.95-226
Blank, Stephen J. Russo-Chinese Military Relations and Asian Security. Issues & Studies 33:58-94 November 1997.
"The most basic impact of the Sino-Russian entente is that it has introduced another military-political layer of great-power rivalry into the Southeast Asia, Korea, and Taiwan regions. Russian arms sales have clearly: (1) fueled regional arms races; (2) threatened to cause conventional and nuclear proliferation; (3) eroded regional stability and security; (4) opened Russia to the possibility of attacks from states like North Korea or China, or economic-political retaliation from the United States; and (5) undermined domestic reform and demilitarization."
Bristow, Damon. Straitening out ASEAN. Free China Review 47:30-34 August 1997.
Author suggests that ASEAN play a more constructive role in the Taiwan Strait issue.
Foot, Rosemary. Chinese-Indian Relations and the Process of Building Confidence: Implications for the Asia-Pacific. Pacific Review 9, no.1:58-76 1996.
Speculates that as a result of its experience with India, there are indications that China has become more receptive to the use of a cooperative security framework elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific, most notably in dealing with the ASEAN Regional Forum.
Huxley, Tim. A Threat in the South China Sea? A Rejoinder. Security Dialogue 29:113-118 March 1998.
Responds to Ji Guoxing's article, "China Versus South China Sea Security" in this issue.
Ji Guoxing. China Versus South China Sea Security. Security Dialogue 29:101-112 March 1998.
Author maintains that China's South China Sea policy "is to defend its sovereign rights over the four archipelagos and its due maritime rights and interests, and to maintain friendly and good-neighborly relations with the littoral states of the area." "A Threat in the South China Sea? A Rejoinder", by Tim Huxley on pp 113-118 of this issue, responds to Dr. Ji's ideas.
Klintworth, Gary. South East Asia-China Relations Evolve. Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter 23:24+ February-March 1997.
Lintner, Bertil. Burma Road: China's Economic Push Southward Worries Neighbors. Far Eastern Economic Review 160:16-17 November 6, 1997.
China takes steps to establish a trade route through Burma. But neighboring states fear the Burmese connection is part of plans not just for trade, but also for Beijing to play a bigger naval role in the Indian Ocean.
Malik, Mohan. Burma Slides Under China's Shadow. Jane's Intelligence Review 9:319-322 July 1997.
Merrill, Kay. A Closer Look at Sino-Burmese Military Links. Jane's Intelligence Review 9:323 July 1997.
Roy, Denny. The Foreign Policy of Great-Power China. Contemporary Southeast Asia 19:121-135 September 1997.
Author concludes that "the purported restraints to China rising to the position of dominant regional power are not convincing. Nevertheless, China can achieve this goal through avenues its neighbors will accept, without resorting to force or coercion.
Schilling, Walter. Changing Power Structures in the Asia-Pacific Region. Aussenpolitik 48, 2nd quarter:158-176 1997.
Fundamental changes are taking place in the power constellations between the states of Southeast Asia and in associated relationships and structures. China, which is rapidly gaining strength in economic and, as a result, military terms, is emerging as a central factor.
Simon, Sheldon W. Alternative Visions of Security in the Asia Pacific. Pacific Affairs 69:381-396 Fall 1996.
Article (1)assesses the Asian-Pacific national security visions of two major actors who do not wish to but could become antagonists--the United States and China; and (2)discusses regional arms buildups as a result of strategic uncertainty, cultural value conflict between the U. S. and its Asian partners, and the Asia-Pacific experiment with new, tentative moves toward security mulilateralism.
Studeman, Michael. Calculating China's Advances in the South China Sea. Naval War College Review 51:68-90 Spring 1998.
Examines circumstances surrounding China's occupation of nine reefs in the Spratly Islands group in 1988, 1992, and 1995, in support of the thesis that economic threats have been the triggers for China's appropriation of territory in the South China Sea.
Vatikiotis, Michael R. J. Friends and Fears. Far Eastern Economic Review 160:14-15 May 8 1997.
Upset by U. S. sanctions against Burma, ASEAN is growing closer to China. But it remains suspicious of Beijing--and dependent on Washington.
Vatikiotis, Michael R. J. and others. Imperial Intrigue. Far Eastern Economic Review 160:14-15 September 11 1997.
China takes advantage of SE Asia's economic woes to foster closer ties and head off American-led containment.
Wanandi, Jusuf. ASEAN's China Strategy: Towards Deeper Engagement. Survival 38:117-128 Autumn 1996.
Whiting, Allen S. ASEAN Eyes China: The Security Dimension. Asian Survey 37:299-322 April 1997.
Young, Peter Lewis. The South China Sea: Conflict Waiting to Occur or Conflict Averted? Asian Defence Journal, pages 17-19 May 1997.
Zhao, Quansheng. Chinese Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era. World Affairs 159:114-129 Winter 1997.
Includes discussion of China's foreign relations with Southeast Asia.
Pacific Symposium (National Defense University). Multilateral Activities in South East Asia: Pacific Symposium, 1995, edited by Michael W. Everett and Mary A. Somerville. Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, DC, National Defense University Press, 1995. 269 p.
India's Role in South East Asia, by C. Raja Mohan, pp 87-110.
Book call no.: 337.159 P117
Southeast Asian Affairs 1997. Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, [annual]. 374 p.
India and Southeast Asia in the 1990s, by Kripa Sridharan, pp 46-63.
Book call no.: 959.053 S727 1997 Latest year in Reference
Naidu, G. V. C. India, ASEAN and the ARF. Strategic Analysis 19:851-862 September 1996.
Singh, Udai Bhanu. India and the ASEAN Regional Forum. Strategic Analysis 19:577-587 July 1996.
Network Power: Japan and Asia
, edited by Peter J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1997. 399 p.Pacific Symposium (National Defense University). Multilateral Activities in South East Asia: Pacific Symposium, 1995, edited by Michael W. Everett and Mary A. Somerville. Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, DC, National Defense University Press, 1995. 269 p.
South East Asia and Japan, by Watanabe Akio, pp 111-120
Book call no.: 337.159 P117
Potter, David M. Japan's Foreign Aid to Thailand and the Philippines. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1996. 206 p.
Book call no.: 338.9152059 P866j
Southeast Asia in the New World Order, edited by David Wurfel and Bruce Burton. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1996. 320 p.
Japan and Southeast Asia: Facing an Uncertain Future, by Michael Donnelly and Richard Stubbs, pp 165-185.
Book call no.: 320.959 S727
Russell, Robin Ladd. Changing Roles of the United States and Japan in the Security of Southeast Asia. Monterey, CA, Naval Postgraduate School, 1994. 139 p.
Doc. call no.: M-U 42525 R9661c
Hughes, Christopher W. Japan's Subregional Security and Defence Linkages with ASEAN, South Korea and China in the 1990s. Pacific Review 9, no.2:229-250 1996.
Southeast Asia in the New World Order,
edited by David Wurfel and Bruce Burton. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1996. 320 p.Bickers, Charles. Bear Market: Russia Wants to be the Top Arms Supplier to Asia. Far Eastern Economic Review 160:25-26 September 4, 1997.
Birgerson, Susanne. The Evolution of Soviet Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia: Implications for Russian Foreign Policy. Asian Affairs: An American Review 23:212-234 Winter 1997.
Blank, Stephen J. Russo-Chinese Military Relations and Asian Security. Issues & Studies 33:58-94 November 1997.
"The most basic impact of the Sino-Russian entente is that it has introduced another military-political layer of great-power rivalry into the Southeast Asia, Korea, and Taiwan regions. Russian arms sales have clearly: (1) fueled regional arms races; (2) threatened to cause conventional and nuclear proliferation; (3) eroded regional stability and security; (4) opened Russia to the possibility of attacks from states like North Korea or China, or economic-political retaliation from the United States; and (5) undermined domestic reform and demilitarization."
Dobrovolski, Vassili N. The Asia-Pacific Security Dialogue Agenda: A Russian Perspective. Korean Journal of Defense Analysis 8:101-116 Winter 1996.
Moltz, James Clay. Russia in Asia in 1996: Renewed Engagement. Asian Survey 37:88-94 January 1997.
Russia and ASEAN.
International Affairs (Moscow) 44:No. 1 1998.Asian Security to the Year 2000,
edited by Dianne L. Smith. Carlisle Barracks, PA, Strategic Studies Institute, U. S. Army War College, 1996. 160 p.Hamilton, Donald W. The Art of Insurgency: American Military Policy and the Failure of Strategy in Southeast Asia. Westport, CT, Praeger, 1998. 186 p.
Book call no.: 355.0218 H217a
Lasater, Martin L. The New Pacific Community: U. S. Strategic Options in Asia. Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 1996. 177 p.
Book call no.: 303.4827305 L339n
Southeast Asia in the New World Order, edited by David Wurfel and Bruce Burton. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1996. 320 p.
U. S. Policy Themes in Southeast Asia in the 1990's, by Donald K. Emmerson, pp 103-127.
Book call no.: 320.959 S727
United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. U. S. Interests in Southeast Asia. Washington, DC, GPO, 1997. 195 p. (Hearing, 104th Congress, 2nd session. May 30 and June 19, 1996.)
Doc. call no.: 327.73059 U581u
United States. Department of State. Congressional Presentation for Foreign Operations. Washington, DC, [The Department], 706 p.
Includes an explanation of U. S. foreign policy objectives, strategies, resources, and performance indicators by function and region. East Asia and the Pacific, pages 432-473.
Book call no.: REFERENCE 355.0320973 C749 1998
Hj Yahya, Bin Hjbidin. (LtCol,RMAF). Southeast Asian Developments in the Post Cold War Era. Maxwell AFB, AL, 1995. 25 leaves. (Air University (U.S.). Air War College. Research report.)
Doc. call no.: M-U 43117 H677s
Russell, Robin Ladd. Changing Roles of the United States and Japan in the Security of Southeast Asia. Monterey, CA, Naval Postgraduate School, 1994. 139 p.
Doc. call no.: M-U 42525 R9661c
Albright, Madeleine. Statement to the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference. DISAM Journal 20:16-21 Fall 1997.
Albright, Madeleine K. ASEAN: Meeting Regional Challenges, Building Global Community. U.S. Department of State Dispatch 8:6-9 July 1997.
Banerjee, Dipankar. US Security Polices in the Asia-Pacific. Asian Defence Journal pp 6+ November 1996.
Bobrow, Davis B. Chan Steve and Reich Simon. Southeast Asian Prospects and Realities: American Hopes and Fears. Pacific Review 9, no.1:1-30 1996.
Presents five alternative scenarios of development for Southeast Asia. Data on foreign direct investment, trade, and currency valuation provide a basis for understanding the relations among the countries in the region, as well as their relations with major external powers, especially the U. S, Japan, and China.
Chan, Stanley. The American Military Capability Gap. Orbis 41:385-400 Summer 1997.
Author examines the questions: what kind of force structure should the U.S. maintain in the Asia-Pacific region, and with what type of weapons systems should those forces be equipped?
Douglas, Stephen A. and Douglas Sara U. Economic Implications of the U.S.-ASEAN Discourse on Human Rights. Pacific Affairs 69:71-87 Spring 1996.
Fisher, Richard D. Jr. Albright's Trip to Southeast Asia: An Opportunity to Correct Past Mistakes. Executive Memorandum No.489:1-2 July 22 1997.
Gregg, Donald P. The Case for Continued U. S. Engagement. Orbis 41:375-384 Summer 1997.
Halloran, Richard. Tepid Engagement. Free China Review 48:42-49 March 1998.
Although the Asian financial meltdown is a wake-up call to Washington, it remains to be seen if the US will construct a more comprehensive and active Asia-Pacific policy.
Hiebert, Murray and others. Fly in the Ointment. Far Eastern Economic Review 160:14-15 June 12 1997.
ASEAN's decision to make Burma, Cambodia and Laos members will present multiple dilemmas--for the grouping itself and for its relations with the West.
Kapur, Ashok. Asia-Pacific: Towards Development of Bargaining Relations between Great and Minor Powers in the 1990s. Round Table No. 340:441-453 October 1996.
The ending of the Cold War has marked a change in the position of the United States, still the strongest military power in the Asia-Pacific region, from a proactive to a reactive force, unable to pursue its interests unaided.
MacIntyre, Andrew. Pacific Drift: Southeast Asia and the US-Australia Relationship. Pacific Review, 9, no. 4:607-624 1996.
It is no coincidence that as Australia finds itself being increasingly pulled towards Asia, its traditionally very close relationship with the US is gradually weakening. Article focuses on developments in Southeast Asia and the way they are affecting US and Australian interests in three key policy areas: trade, politics and human rights, and security.
Nesadurai, Helen E. S. APEC: A Tool for US Regional Domination? Pacific Review 9, no. 1:31-57 1996.
Examines the possibility the the U. S. could "capture" the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum and use it to impose America's economic agenda on the region.
Opall, Barbara. Singapore Criticized for Deal to Welcome More U.S. Ships. Navy Times 47:32 March 23, 1998.
Pollack, Jonathan D. The United States and Asia in 1996: Under Renovation, but Open for Business. Asian Survey 37:95-109 January 1997.
Simon, Sheldon W. Alternative Visions of Security in the Asia Pacific. Pacific Affairs 69:381-396 Fall 1996.
Article (1)assesses the Asian-Pacific national security visions of two major actors who do not wish to but could become antagonists--the United States and China; and (2)discusses regional arms buildups as a result of strategic uncertainty, cultural value conflict between the U. S. and its Asian partners, and the Asia-Pacific experiment with new, tentative moves toward security mulilateralism.
Vatikiotis, Michael. Pacific Divide. Far Eastern Economic Review 160:14-16 November 6, 1997.
Southeast Asians are smoldering over what they see as the US' cool response to their economic woes. And that could nudge the region closer to China and Japan.
Vatikiotis, Michael R. J. Friends and Fears. Far Eastern Economic Review 160:14-15 May 8 1997.
Upset by U. S. sanctions against Burma, ASEAN is growing closer to China. But it remains suspicious of Beijing--and dependent on Washington.
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