ABSTRACT
The final two pressures or factors to exert a significant influence on arms acquisitions by the various South-East Asian states are those of technological progression and the role of extra-regional powers. By extraregional, it is meant that they are outside the geographical area of SouthEast Asia and are, therefore, not members of the South-East Asian security complex. These powers have, however, often exerted a considerable influence on that complex because of the inter-linkages between the regional and international complexes during the Second Cold War.1
