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RAFFLES INSTITUTION Year 6 Preliminary Examinations 2016 HISTORY 9731/02 Higher 2 13 September 2016 Paper 2 History of Southeast Asia c1900-1997 3 hours   COVER SHEET Name : CT class : Question No. For Examiner’s Use Only Marks 1 TOTAL

Raffles Institution 2016 9731/02/2016   2 RAFFLES INSTITUTION Year 6 Preliminary Examinations 2016 HISTORY 9731/02 Higher 2 13 September 2016 Paper 2 History of Southeast Asia c1900-1997 3 hours   READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name and CT class on the cover sheet and all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Indicate the question numbers attempted in the space provided on the cover sheet. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer any three questions. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work and the cover sheet securely together. All questions in this paper carry equal marks.   This document consists of 6 printed pages, including the cover sheet.

Raffles Institution 2016 9731/02/2016   3 Section A You must answer Question 1. ASEAN AND REGIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY 1 Read the sources and then answer the question. When answering Question 1 candidates are advised to pay particular attention to the interpretation and evaluation of the sources both individually and as a group. Source A One must, therefore, conclude…that our over-involvement in Vietnam served no useful catalytic purpose. The ‘time gained’ has at best created a sense of self-dependence in most of the countries…Whether ASEAN, in due time , can promote a larger regional identity remains to be seen, but the outlook at the moment is not especially encouraging. There are too many rivalries, commercial, political, and racial, to warrant much optimism, though it is possible, as for example in the case of the Muslim disturbances in the Philippines, that sooner or later a formula for mediation may be found within the region itself. An American journalist commenting on the American withdrawal from Southeast Asia in 1975. Source B ASEAN's positive image was built around four areas of accomplishment in its first three decades. First, it was able to survive as Asia's only multipurpose regional organization after China and India failed in their attempts at regional institution building. Second, since 1967 no ASEAN member has engaged a fellow ASEAN member in major armed confrontation, in spite of occasional border skirmishes (not ably between Thailand and Myanmar in 2001) and bilateral territorial disputes and political tensions (particularly between Singapore and M