Southeast Asia Appears Stuck In A History Trap – Analysis
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By David Hutt
The story Southeast Asia likes to tell itself is that, by the late 1990s, it had something like its “end of history” moment.
By 1999, the region was free of colonialism, with the last push made by Timor-Leste, which that year held a referendum to throw off Indonesian imperialism. With that development, the...