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Economic, Political, and Security Issues in Southeast Asia in the 1980s

Edited by Robert A. Scalapino and Jusuf Wanandi
Reviewed by Donald S. Zagoria
Spring 1983
Economic, Political, and Security Issues in Southeast Asia in the 1980s
Edited by Robert A. Scalapino and Jusuf Wanandi
Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California
1982
230 pp.
$10.00
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ASEAN has been one of the most successful organizations in the history of Southeast Asia. Few Western observers would have anticipated this when Saigon fell just a decade ago. For anyone interested in Southeast Asian perspectives on current issues of international relations, this is a useful collection.

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