Southeast Asia After the Crisis: A Tale of Three Countries

Issue Date October 1999
Volume 10
Issue 4
Page Numbers 35-53
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About the Author

Donald K. Emmerson heads the Southeast Asia Program at Stanford University. His latest publications include “Mapping ASEAN’s Futures” in Contemporary Southeast Asia (August 2017) and a chapter in The South China Sea Disputes (edited by Yang Razali Kassim, 2017).

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