The Limits of Alignment: Southeast Asia and the Great Powers since 1975

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

xi Abbreviations and Acronyms AFP Armed Forces of the Philippines AMS Agreement on Maintaining Security (Indonesia and Australia) ANZUK Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum ARF ASEAN Regional Forum ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN-6 The first six members of ASEAN (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei,Thailand, and the Philippines) ASEM Asia-Europe Meetings BCP Burmese Communist Party BITAC U.S.-Malaysia Bilateral Training and Consultative Group BSPP Burmese Socialist Program Party CARAT Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training CGDK Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (including the Khmers Rouges, royalists, and other anti-Vietnamese groups during the 1980s) CIA U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIS Commonwealth of Independent States COMECON Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (USSR and allies) CPP Cambodian People’s Party (Kanakpak Pracheachon Kâmpuchéa) CPT Communist Party of Thailand CSCAP Conference on Security and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific DK Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia, 1975–1978) EAS East Asia Summit FMS Foreign Military Sales credit program (United States) FPDA Five-Power Defence Arrangements (Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and United Kingdom, 1971) Fretilin Revolutionary Front for East Timorese Independence IMET International Military Education Training program (U.S.) IMF International Monetary Fund JI Jemaah Islamiah LPDR Lao People’s Democratic Republic LPRP Lao People’s Revolutionary Party MILF Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Philippines) NAM Non-Aligned Movement xii Abbreviations and Acronyms NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization NLD National League for Democracy (Burma/Myanmar) NPA New People’s Army (Philippines) PAVN People’s Army of Vietnam PKI Communist Party of Indonesia (Partai Komunis Indonesia) PRC People’s Republic of China PRK People’s Republic of Kampuchea (Cambodia, 1979–1990) SEATO Southeast Asia Treaty Organization SLORC State Law and Order Restoration Council (Myanmar, 1988–1997) SOFA Status of Forces Agreement (U.S.-Philippines) SRV Socialist Republic of Vietnam TAC Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (1976) UMNO United Malay National Organization UNTAC U.N.Transitional Authority in Cambodia VCP Vietnamese Communist Party VFA Visiting Forces Agreement (U.S.-Philippines) ZOPFAN Zone of Peace, Freedom, and Neutrality Map 0.1 Southeast Asia after 1975 Source: University of Texas Libraries This page intentionally left blank ...