Asia's NATO? Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)

Did you know about SEATO? Asia’s own NATO? With the war raging between Russia and Ukraine, NATO or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is once again dominating headlines in world news. Unknown to many, Southeast Asia also once had a similar international organization formed for the very same reason. So, what exactly was SEATO? Whatever happened to it?

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:36 Cold War Context
03:36 Establishing SEATO
04:47 Awkward Membership?
06:10 How does it compare to NATO?
07:43 SEATO’s Decline
09:05 Was SEATO an Epic Fail? Legacy?
10:19 Criticisms of SEATO
11:05 What happened after?
11:48 Shoutouts & Closing

Recommended Readings:
???? Leszek Buszynski, SEATO: The Failure of an Alliance Strategy (Singapore, 1983).
???? John K. Franklin, The Hollow Pact: Pacific Security and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (New York, 2006).
???? John Grenville and Bernard Wasserstein (eds), The Major International Treaties of the Twentieth Century: A History and Guide with Texts (London, 2001).

About SEATO:

The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) emerged at the height of the Cold War. However, its membership did not actually include many independent Southeast Asian nations. There were eight full members of the organization: the United States, Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand, most of which we would hardly associate with Southeast Asia today.

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