ASEAN's formative decade 1967-1977 : an evaluation of the aspirations and accomplishments of its participants

This analysis has been limited to a ten-year time span for mainly practical reasons. A study of ASEAN's history from 1967 to the present would have been too lengthy if an adequate coverage were to have been given to the subject. I have attempted while exporing my main theme - the evolution of the thinking of ASEAN's participants about the most appropriate objectives and activities for the Association - to provide also, as a background, a brief record of the major events and vicissitudes in the history of ASEAN during its first decade, not in exhaustive detail but touching at least on the major developments and the way that ASEAN's members responded to those developments. Such a record has not been provided previously by other researchers