Canada was a member of the International Control Commission (ICC) overseeing the implementation of 1954 Geneva Agreements in Indochina and the 1973 Paris Agreement in Viet Nam. Over the past three decades, many Vietnamese came to the country of maple leaf to settle and contribute to a multicultural Canada. The two countries now participate in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Trans-…
This paper provides a survey of Vietnam's challenges and problems in foreign relations. The paper first reviews developments in Vietnam's process of political and economic "renovation" (doi moi) and highlights the influence domestic pressures for change (especially in economic policy) have had on foreign relations. The paper then considers the recent evolution of Vietnam's international outlook…
This book argues that an exclusively realist view of Singapore''s foreign policy is inadequate. Singapore''s foreign policy is also shaped by the positive effects of economic interdependence and regional institution-building instruments that realists tend to dismiss, but which Singapore has self-consciously tried to promote as instruments of regional order. The book first looks at the evolu…
This monograph seeks to assess the role that Indonesia has played in ASEAN following the serious economic and political crisis that engulfed the state from late 1997. The paper gives an overview of Indonesian foreign policy since independence, and its subsequent relation to ASEAN.
A Plastic Nation examines the immense role of Thai nationhood in domestic and international politics. Although in fact ill-defined, Thainess, or khwampenthai, has been consistently used by Thai leaders to legitimize their power and to defend their economic interests. Not only has the assertion of Thainess been deeply rooted in the private interests of those in power, it has been deployed as par…
The government of Myanmar, considering the many "distortions" contained in foreign accounts, in recuperating its history set up the Myanmar historical commision in the 1950s to delve into the past by way of what is commonly know in Myanmar as "living history".
This history is an account of Southeast Asia-New Zealand relations as they have emerged since the end of World War II. Drawing together the most prominent scholars of New Zealand's relations with Southeast Asia, this study examines the overall military, multilateral, and commercial relationships and those that assess individual bilateral relationships and diplomatic controversies. Southeast Asi…
Rusia dan Indonesia adalah sahabat lama. Dua negara ini telah melewati kenangan-kenangan kebersamaan yang begitu banyak. Tahukah kita: Uni Soviet termasuk negara pertama yang mengakui kedaulatan NKRI, Soekarno dan Kruschev adalah duo harmonis yang akrab berkirim ucapan, bahwa karya Rendra begitu populer di Rusia, dan tentang orang-orang Rusia yang ternyata suka dengan lagu Rayuan Pulau Kelapa.
Assesses the importance of enhanced ASEAN-Japan cooperation as a step toward a greater East Asian regional community. Fifteen international relations experts review the history and current status of this bilateral relationship and propose how it can be strengthened.
This book is an edited volume about China-ASEAN relations with contributions from experts based in China and Singapore. The book includes a few excellent papers that were presented at a conference the editor organized in October 2009 and also two other research papers. They examine China-ASEAN relations from a sub-regional cooperation perspective. The book discusses and analyzes China-ASEAN coo…