Southeast Asia

This book traces the evolution of Southeast Asia and focuses on the neotraditional bases for contemporary, independent development of the region. It also focuses on continuities in the region's internal dynamics as well as its relationship to the greater global environment.

Donald G. McCloud is senior associate director of the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities (MUCIA).

Preface -- Southeast Asia in Regional and Global Contexts -- An Overview of Early Southeast Asia -- Bases for Political Community in Traditional Southeast Asia -- State Formation and Development in Early Southeast Asia -- The Interstate System in Precolonial Southeast Asia -- Colonial Interlopers and System Disjunction -- Traditional Values in Western Cloth: The State at Independence -- The Global System in the Post-World War II Era -- Foreign Policy in the Bipolar World -- Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World -- Coming of Age in Foreign Policy Responses -- The Emergence of Neotraditional Values -- Regional Politics: Fragmentation and Cooperation -- The Interstate System of Contemporary Southeast Asia