Southeast asia in contex : Hope and frustration. -- Southeast asian mosaic. -- Regional groupings. -- Indonesia : sleeping beauty : In search of identity. -- The meaning of Java. -- From colonialism to independence. -- From parliamentary democracy to Sukarno. -- The heyday of Sukarno. -- The coup that failed. -- The aftermath of blood. -- Suharto vs. Sukarno : A javaness shadow play. -- A tour of the islands. -- The new oreder emerges. --Singapore-Malaysia: divorce, Asian style : Going it alone. -- Windfalls and problems. -- Background of a bad marriage. -- The pangs of separation. -- Successful welfare state. -- Malaysia's ups and downs. --The Philippines: survival in the sun : The new and the old. -- How far with Marcos? -- Law but no order. -- The new left wing. -- The tempest over Sabah. --Thailand: dam or domino? : Again at the crossroads. -- Prelude to insurgency. -- The counterinsurgency program. -- The threat in the south. -- Assimilation and politics --Cambodia: the eye of the storm : Cambodia is Sihanouk. -- Blowing hot and cold. -- The Cambodian left. -- The border issue. -- Shuttlecock diplomacy. -- Laos: the ugly duckling : The seesaw war. -- The struggle in the south. -- Souvanna and the Americans. --Vietnam: reaping the whirlwind : the Vietnamese and the Americans. -- The turning of the screw. -- Political half-measures. -- The failure of reform. -- Background ot Tet. -- The attack-failure and success. -- The continuing communist offensive. -- Paris and afterward. --the United States after Vietnam : Lessons learned or not learned. -- Mistakes and misunderstandings. -- Faults in the structure. -- The resposibilities of response.

1. Southeast Asia -- Politics and government -- 1945-