{"id":197,"date":"2012-06-26T14:31:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T14:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=197"},"modified":"2020-04-19T18:17:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T10:17:30","slug":"from-seafet-asa-precursors-asean-nicholas-tarling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=197","title":{"rendered":"From SEAFET and ASA: Precursors of ASEAN, by Nicholas Tarling."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vol. 3, No. 1 (2007): 1\u201314.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the disappearance of the imperial structures that had dominated\u00a0Southeast Asia, newly-independent states had to develop foreign policies of\u00a0their own. So far few, if any, have been willing to allow historians to\u00a0explore the documentary evidence that has no doubt been preserved.\u00a0Somewhat paradoxically, they must turn to the archives of external powers,\u00a0which largely follow a thirty-year rule. Their diplomats were indeed often\u00a0keenly interested in collecting information from ministers, on the golf\u00a0course or otherwise, and from officials, who might convey or leak it more or\u00a0less straightforwardly. In my recent book, Regionalism in Southeast Asia, I\u00a0was able to incorporate material from United Kingdom (UK) records on the\u00a0development of Southeast Asia Friendship and Economic Treaty (SEAFET),\u00a0Association of Southeast Asia States (ASA) and Association of Southeast\u00a0Asian Nations (ASEAN). I have been turning more recently to the material\u00a0in the New Zealand archives, which contain not only reports from New\u00a0Zealand diplomats but also from Australian and Canadian diplomats as well.\u00a0They have both supported and modified my conclusions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author&#8217;s bio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nicholas Tarling, who was awarded the LittD by Cambridge University in 1974, was a Professor of History at the University of Auckland 1968\u20131996, and is currently a Fellow of the New Zealand Asia Institute (NZAI) at the university. He has published many books and articles on the history of Southeast Asia, particularly, but not exclusively, on the role of the British. 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