Vietnam and Asean: Who would have thought it possible?

Asian Survey

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 592-599

  Goodman, Allan E ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0008636393     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2645793     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. The treaty, signed in 1954, established an eight-nation defense alliance; only two Southeast Asian countries - Thailand and the Philippines - were members. SEATO was dissolved as an institution in 1977.
2. "Deputy FM Khoan: Time Now for Normalisation of Relations," Vietnam Investment Review, 5-11 June 1995, p. 4.
3. Kenneth Waltz, "The Emerging Structure of International Politics," International Security, no. 48 (Fall 1993), pp. 44-79.
4. Kenichi Omhae, "The Rise of the Region State," Foreign Affairs (Spring 1993), pp. 78-87.
5. "ASEAN Must Set Example," Straits Times, 13 December 1995, p. 28.
6. Carolyn L. Gates, "Foreign Direct Investment, Institutional Change, and Vietnam's Gradualist Approach to Reform," Southeast Asian Affairs 1995 (Singapore: Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, 1995), pp. 382-400.
7. Vu Tuan Anh, ed., Vietnam's Economic Reform: Results and Problems (Hanoi: Social Science Publishing House, 1994), p. 193.
8. Vu Ngoc Uyen, "Vietnam-ASEAN Economic Relations: Post-July Prospects," Vietnam's Socio-Economic Development, no. 2 (Summer 1995), p. 56.
9. See, for example, the positions taken by the Vietnamese participants as far back as 1991 in The Political and Economic Co-operation Between ASEAN, Its Member States, and the S.R. of Vietnam: Bi- and Multilateral Perspectives, Proceedings of the International Forum organized by the National Center for Social Sciences of Vietnam and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation (Kuala Lumpur: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 1992).
10. Doanh Manh Giao, "Why Vietnam Joins ASEAN," paper prepared for the international seminar, "Vietnam in ASEAN," Kuala Lumpur, 19-20 December 1995, p. 4.
11. This point has been made by other Asian leaders in advancing the argument for a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality; see for example, J. Soedjati Djiwandono, "ZOPFAN: Its Continued Relevance," in B. A. Hamzah, ed., Southeast Asia and Regional Peace (Kuala Lumpur: Institute of Strategic and International Studies, 1992), p. 85.
12. Quoted in Michael Richardson, "Asians Fear Beijing Seeks Control of Sea," International Herald Tribune, 15 March 1994, p. 4.
13. For a statement of the case that China indeed poses such a long-term threat, see Denny Roy, "Hegemon on the Horizon? China's Threat to East Asian Security," International Security, no. 19 (Summer 1994), pp. 149-68.
14. Such concerns are being reinforced in Washington by the recent news that Chinese military planners are engaged in a review of contingency plans against Taiwan that would undoubtedly also involve a substantial Chinese naval presence in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. See Seth Faison, "Beijing Sees U.S. Moves as Plot to Thwart China," New York Times, 1 August 1995, p. A2.
15. "Vietnam Can Gain from ASEAN, Says abdullah," New Straits Times, 20 December 1995, p. 1.
16. Quoted in "Premier Discusses SRV Relationship with ASEAN," Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Daily Report/EAS, 23 February 1996, p. 65.
17. United States Security Strategy for the East Asia-Pacific Region (Washington D.C.: Department of Defense, Office of International Security Affairs, February 1995), p. 13.
18. Vietnam: U.S. and ASEAN Ties Foster Reforms and Economic Integration into Asia (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, 20 July 1995), p. 4.