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Regional Conflicts and Cooperation and ASEAN
Quick questions on Confrontation and interstate disputes explained: H2 History
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What are confrontation between neighbours?Show answer
Alongside the internal upheavals of the new states ran a pattern of confrontation and dispute between them. Newly sovereign, assertive and unsure of one another, the states of Southeast Asia frequently quarrelled, sometimes verbally, sometimes through hostile policies, and on occasion through armed confrontation. These interstate disputes are significant in their own right, as a measure of how unstable the early region was, and as the essential background to the later turn toward cooperation, because it was partly the experience of confrontation that made states see the value of working together.
What is the costs of confrontation?Show answer
Confrontation was costly and dangerous, and recognising this is essential to understanding why the region eventually turned toward cooperation. Hostility between neighbours diverted scarce resources to defence and away from the development that the new states urgently needed. It created insecurity that deterred investment and disrupted trade. It raised the danger of escalation into open war, and it invited the intervention of outside powers, threatening the autonomy of the region.
What is q1?Show answer
Identify the main national interests over which Southeast Asian states confronted one another. [4 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain why interstate confrontation was so costly for the new states. [12 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
"Interstate disputes in Southeast Asia were a national, not an ideological, phenomenon." How far do you agree? [20 marks]
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