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- Title: Introduction: America's Bilateral Relations with Southeast Asia--Constraints and Promise.
- Author : Contemporary Southeast Asia
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 256 KB
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This special issue of Contemporary Southeast Asia examining United States bilateral relations with Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos and Vietnam, and specifically the mutual efforts at "rapprochement", "re-engagement" or "revitalization", is informed by several considerations. First, the Obama administration took office with a declared commitment to improve relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as an organization and moved with alacrity to implement a number of policy decisions to that end. Second, and in parallel, the administration highlighted opportunities for broader and deeper bilateral relations with specific ASEAN member countries. In fact, the Obama administration's policy of improving bilateral relations across Southeast Asia and with ASEAN as an institution is integrated and necessary--not least because of ASEAN's own decision to expand its membership in the 1990s. Four of the countries considered in this special issue constitute the "new", expanded membership of ASEAN and are countries with whom the opportunities for improved relations with the US are greatest. Together, this focus on Southeast Asia is an important element of the current administration's overall focus on US relations with the Asia Pacific--a focus which represents one of the most significant periods of US regional activism in decades.