Resumen de Response to a response

Peter Ferdinand

• This article Restates the differences in focus between the original article and the Response, which justifies the choice of 1974 as the starting date for analysis.

  Accepts the more nuanced analysis of the voting convergence of the ASEAN states.

  Restates the considerations leading to the decision to include all the UNGA resolutions in the period chosen as the basis of the analysis, rather than a filtered selection.

  Argues that these two articles provide hypotheses for further qualitative as well as quantitative analysis of the factors determining the voting behaviour of Pacific Asian states.