Abstract
The study of foreign policy in Southeast Asia in recent years has focused on the processes and structures of regionalism, especially ASEAN. Truly integrative activity has not been a region-wide phenomenon. It has been subregional in the formation of so called growth or natural economic territories. Analysis of subregionalism has tended to he limited to the economic functions performed within them; involving as they do national state actors in their creation and development, subregional zones are also an appropriate category for political analysis. Some ini tial hypotheses are offered in this article to explain the foreign policy impact of subregional economic zones in a comparative analysis.
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