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  Stanley Foundation: New Power Dynamics in Southeast Asia: Issues for US Policymakers

  October 1, 2006

  Since the end of the Vietnam War, Southeast Asia has often been viewed as secondary
  to vital US interests. However, in a post-Cold War world that is increasingly
  shaped by rising powers and nonstate actors, what was previously marginal
  has become pivotal. After September 11, 2001, both Islamic fundamentalists and
  the United States identified Southeast Asia as a "second front." Some of Southeast
  Asia's Muslims have forged closer ties with the Middle East, even as Middle
  Eastern petrodollars have funded Southeast Asian mosques and schools. Southeast
  Asia has also emerged as a crossroads between status quo powers -- the United
  States, Japan -- and the rising powers of China and India.
  At the 47th annual Strategy for Peace Conference, held in October 2006, the
  Stanley Foundation convened four panels to assess the political, security, economic,
  and regional aspects of the changing power dynamic in Asia, with particular
  attention to Southeast Asia. The dialogue brought together policymakers, scholars,
  analysts, and nongovernmental practitioners to consider the challenges -- as
  well as opportunities -- for US policy in this new regional environment. This policy
  brief reports on the substance of these discussions, with the caution that it does
  not necessarily represent a consensus.

  Full Text of Document

   

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