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  Great power involvement in post Cold War Southeast Asia

  The purpose of this paper is to highlight the political existing in Southeast Asia Region focusing on the past trend and future possibilities. Although, the Southeast Asia region is small as opposed to other continent, there are however many security and economic problem that influence the political stability. More importantly, it seems that Southeast Asia political stability is crucial in understanding on apparent transformation of the major power of the United States in this post cold war era.
  
  Any assessment of the security dimension in Southeast Asia will be confined to discussion of the superpowers namely the United States, Soviet Union, China and Japan. The interaction between those powers defines the likely changes of the security configuration within this region that will further influence the political and economic stability.
  
  As mentioned earlier, security dimension should not be understood only from the perspective of defence and military build-up because they also involve political and economic strategies. Economies such as free trade may be the most important agenda o national survival and therefore its security will determine the development of the political stability in the region. The roles of superpower such as the United States and the Soviet Union by no means extend the security issues as a power balance in the region.