Abstract
The formation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in August 1967 was the outcome of a complex process of regionalism which had been underway for nearly a half decade if not longer. One component of this complex process was the convergence in political outlook and antipathy towards communism by Southeast Asia’s political elite.2 In the mid-1960s the founding members of ASEAN — Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand — were all either beset by communist insurgency or subversion, or felt threatened by neighbouring communist states such as China and Vietnam.
Background material on developments up to 1983 is taken from Irvine, R., 1982 and Chanda, 1983.
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Irvine, D., in Alison Broinowski (ed.) Understanding ASEAN (1982) p.40.
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Thayer, C.A. (1990). ASEAN and Indochina: The Dialogue. In: Broinowski, A. (eds) ASEAN into the 1990s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20886-9_6
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