David Wurfel

The political economy of foreign policy in Southeast Asia

Map - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction D.Wurfel & B.Burton - The Comparative Analysis of Foreign Policy: Some Notes on the Pitfalls and Paths to Theory K.J.Holsti - Analysing Third World Foreign Policy B.Korany - Foreign Policy and the New International Division of Labour in the Late 1980s: The African Dimension T.M.Shaw - The External Environment for Southeast Asian Foreign Policy N.Chanda - The Political Economy of Indonesias Foreign Policy D.King - The Foreign Policy of Malaysia R.Stubbs - Foreign Policy in Singapore L.Y.C.Lim - Philippine Foreign Policy D.Wurfel - Foreign Policy in Thailand C.D.Neher - The Foreign Policy of Burma J.Badgley - The Foreign Policy of Vietnam G.Porter - Kampucheas Foreign Policy G.Porter - The Political Economy of Lao Foreign Policy M.Stuart-Fox - Conclusion: Southeast Asian Foreign Policies: Intra- and Extra-Regional Comparisons D.Wurfel Index

Introduction: A Foreign Policy Framework for Southeast Asian States

The comparative study of foreign policy, which lagged in the 1970s, has been revived in recent years by a new focus on Third World states, with a leading role taken by specialists on Africa and the Middle East (Shaw and Aluko, 1983; Shaw and Aluko, 1984; Korany and Dessouki, 1984). The present volume is an attempt to bring to another region, Southeast Asia, the same combination of area studies and concern for frameworks of analysis.