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Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

Johan Saravanamuthu

Asean nations

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) provides Malaysia with an important means of pursuing national foreign policy objectives with regard to neutrality and neutralization, regional co-operation, Indochina and nuclear non-proliferation.

  • Information in the full article includes
  • The origins of ASEAN
  • ASEAN in a central role, 1976–80
  • The Mahathir period, 1981–2003