CJC Preliminary Examinations 2012 Paper 2 - Question Paper

1 CATHOLIC JUNIOR COLLEGE JC2 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS 2012 HISTORY 9731/02 Paper 2 Southeast Asian History, 1900 - 1997 27 August 2012 0800 – 1100 h (3 hours) No Additional Materials are required. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name and home tutorial group on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer any three questions. INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES All questions in this paper carry equal marks. Start each answer on a fresh sheet of paper. You are reminded of the need for good English and clear presentation in your answers. This question paper consists of 4 printed pages

2 © CJC 2012 | HISTORY 9731/02 | PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION Section A You must answer Question 1. Regional Cooperation in ASEAN, 1967 – 1997 1. Read the sources and then answer the question. Source A ASEAN has made remarkable strides in economic co -operation since its very humble beginnings. Starting with bold and innovative approaches in the late 1980s and early 1990s, ASEAN leaders began to develop more ambitious means of economic co -operation, at the same time that political/diplomatic imperatives were falling in importance. This culminated in the creation of an ASEAN Fr ee Trade Area (AFTA) at the Fourth Summit in 1992. Since then, ASEAN has expanded coverage of AFTA, expedited the liberalisation process and has embarked on deeper regional economic integration accords. While many of these latter initiatives are only now being developed, they are indicative of the intentions of the ASEAN leaders to create a unified marketplace in a wider Southeast Asian region. ASEAN Economic Bulletin, “Economic Cooperation after 30 years”, November 1997. Source B ASEAN played a promi nent diplomatic role during the Cambodian conflict, especially in keeping the issue in the political limelight at the United Nations. In attempting to bring pressure to bear on Vietnam to withdraw, however, it did not act alone but was part of an internati onal division of labour, including China and the United States, which employed complementary military and economic instruments of coercion. There was a period during the late 1980s when ASEAN, under the leadership of Indonesia, which had been accorded an i nterlocutor role in dealing with Vietnam, held a series of informal meetings in Jakarta in an attempt to find a comprehensive solution to the conflict on a regional basis but without evident success. An academic article on the ASEAN peace process, 1999. Source C Just a little over four years after ASEAN’s establishment, the ASEAN foreign ministers found themselves “convinced that the time is propitious for joint action to give effective exp