Preliminary pages I. The Visible Indonesia II. Indonesian Policy Foundations III. Democracy in Indonesian Foreign Policy IV. Islam in Indonesian Foreign Policy V. Indonesia, ASEAN and Regional Political Stability and Security Conclusion Addendum End Notes References

Southeast Asia consists of the countries of Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Historically, U.S. policy and diplomacy with Southeast Asia is defined by U.S. interests in the region, whether it's maintaining free lanes of communication through the South China Sea, gaining access to the resources and markets of Southeast Asia, or containing the spread of Communism. Since World War II, the U.S. has constantly been involved in conflicts in the region: providing material and financial support for France during the First Indochina War, direct involvement in the Vietnam War, providing support to Thailand during the Third Indochina War, and the declaration that Southeast Asia is the second-front in the war on terror after September 11. The Historical Dictionary of United States-Southeast Asia Relations identifies the key issues, individuals, and events in the history of U.S.-Southeast Asia relations and places them in the context of the complex and dynamic regional strategic, political, and economic processes that have fashioned the American role in Southeast Asia. This is done through a chronology, a bibliography, an introductory essay, appendixes, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on key persons, places, events, institutions, and organizations.

The study of foreign policy in Southeast Asia in recent years has focused on the processes and structures of regionalism, especially ASEAN. Truly integrative activity has not been a region-wide phenomenon. It has been subregional in the formation of so called growth or natural economic territories. Analysis of subregionalism has tended to he limited to the economic functions performed within them; involving as they do national state actors in their creation and development, subregional zones are also an appropriate category for political analysis. Some ini tial hypotheses are offered in this article to explain the foreign policy impact of subregional economic zones in a comparative analysis.

(1991). Asean: Richard J. Kessler. Rebellion and Repression in the Philippines. Asian Affairs: An American Review: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 191-191.

Postwar Indochina: Old Enemies and New Allies. Edited by Joseph Zasloff. Washington: U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Institute, Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs, 1988. xx, 290 pp. - Volume 50 Issue 3

" Asean: Hans H. Indorf and Patrick M. Mayerchak. Linkage or Bondage: U.S. Economic Relations with the ASEAN Region.." Asian Affairs: An American Review, 18(3), p. 190

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Southeast Asia and the Enemy Beyond: ASEAN Perceptions of External Threats. By Robert O. Tilman. Boulder: Westview Press, 1987. x, 194 pp. 15.00 (paper). (Distributed by University of Hawaii Press) - Volume 47 Issue 2

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