Institutional activities have remarkably transformed East Asia, a region once known for the absence of regionalism and regime-building efforts. Yet the dynamics

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Provides a comparative sketch of regional cooperation in South and Southeast Asia in the light of various political, economic and social developments in the two

The Nixon or Guam Doctrine of 1969 stressed the importance of progress towards regional cooperation and Asian collective security, indicating that Asian countri