The ASEAN success story
Subtitle: social, economic, and political dimensions : based on the East-West Center's 25th Anniversary Conference on ASEAN and the Pacific Basin, held in Honolulu, Hawaii from 29 October to 1 November 1985
By: edited by Linda G. Martin.
Contributors: Martin, Linda G., 1947-; East-West Center.; East-West Center's 25th Anniversary Conference on ASEAN and the Pacific Basin (1985 : Honolulu, Hawaii)
Publisher: The Center; Distributed by the University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Honolulu, Hawaii
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: ASEAN -- Congresses.; Southeast Asia -- Economic integration -- Congresses; Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.; Southeast Asia -- Social conditions -- Congresses.; Southeast Asia -- Politics and government -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: The book contains overviews by the prime minister of Thailand and the deputy prime minister of Malaysia. It goes on to deal with such major current issues as rapid urbanization, income inequality, the nuclearization of the family, industrial and trade policies to promote growth, access to Japanese markets, the Kampuchea problem, and the Phillipines crisis, as well as with fundamental questions of ASEAN's integration in the economic sphere and its growing contribution to regional and world political stability.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.