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A New ASEAN In A New Millenium

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In thinking about the advent of the twenty-first century, one is reminded of George F. Kennan's opening comments in his volume of reflections published in 1996 under the title, At A Century's Ending. Citing his friend John Luckas, Kennan concurred that ”… in no instance was a century neatly bounded by the years that formally defined it”.1 Indeed, a century should be more meaningfully defined in terms of the epoch-making events (the defining moments, so to speak) which distinguish one period of history from another. Hence, if we were to use the internationalization and extra- Europeanization of the modern international system as the defining features of the twentieth century, then this century can be said to have begun in 1914 (with the outbreak of World War I) rather than 1900. If, in that sense, the twentieth century was late in arriving, the twenty-first century is already with us — that is if we take its defining features to be the end of the Cold War and the advent of the technological revolution in global communication which has added to a more interdependent world.

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KP XXI TAY n

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Jakarta, Indonesia : Centre for Strategic and International Studies., 2000

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x, 246 hlm. ; 25 cm.

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English

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979-8026-69-1

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KP XXI

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ASEAN

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