Abstract
Despite intraorganisational tensions and conflicts, and the frequently disruptive influence of many external forces which together or alone could have led to yet another rusting edifice in the regional landscape, ASEAN has survived. The aspirations of the founders went beyond mere survival, however, and when the balance sheet for the last thirteen years or so is completed, we shall see that progress has been made in many areas. This is not to say that opportunities have not been squandered, or that after all these years more could not have been accomplished. Given the many daunting obstacles faced by the organisation it has nevertheless fared reasonably well.
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Chapter Three
ASAReport of the Third Meeting of the Foreign Ministers ASA, Bangkok, Thailand, August 3–5, 1966 (Kuala Lumpur: Jabatan Chetak Kerajaan, 1967) for a complete list of projects and plans approved by the Ministerial Meeting in August 1966 and largely passed on to ASEAN.
Hans H. Indorf, ASEAN: Problems and Prospects (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Occasional Paper No. 38, December 1975) p. 45.
Noordin Sopiee, ‘The Neutralisation of Southeast Asia’, in Hedley Bull (ed.), Asia and the Western Pacific: Towards a New International Order. (Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1975) pp. 132–58.
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Jorgensen-Dahl, A. (1982). The Development of ASEAN. In: Regional Organization and Order in South-East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05789-4_3
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