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THE CHALLENGE TO THE SOUTHEAST
ASIA IN THE 21 CENTURY:
st
TOWARDS A REGIONAL HISTORY
FROM WITHIN 1

1. Introduction

he prominent historical change during the last decade
Tof the twentieth century in the East Asian (Northeast
and Southeast Asian) world has been the shift from the politics
of the Cold War to the geo economics of the post Cold War era.
During the latter, Northeast and Southeast Asia represented a
geostrategic battle zone of potential war. However, the major
Cold War line which ran through Northeast and Southeast Asia
was the eruption zone of four major wars between 1945 and 75,
namely the Chinese Civil War 1945-1949; the Korean War of
1950-1953; the First Indochina War of 1946-1954; and the sec-
ond Indochina War of Vietnam War of 1965-1975. These sub
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1 Paper presented at the Workshop History Agenda 21, organized by
The SEAMEO Regional Centre for History and Tradition (CHAT), on 14
15 December 2000 at Yangon, Myanmar.
2 J. Mark Burger and Douglas A. Borer, The Rise of East Asia, Critical
Visions of The Pacific Century (New York and London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 3.

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