1 Donald E. Nuechterle, America Overcommitted: United States National Interests in the 1980s,University Press of Kentucky, 1985. 2 This refers to the post-Cold War, the post-Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, and the post-September 11, 2001 attacks. For fuller discussion, see Vinod K. Aggarwal, Asia’s New Institutional Architecture: Evolving Structures for Managing Trade, Financial and Security Relations (Political Economy of the Asia Pacific), Springer, 2007.

3 Marvin Ott, “Southeast Asian Security Challenges: America’s Response?” Strategic Forum no. 222, October, 2006.

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