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Contemporary research on the International Relations of Southeast Asia has neglected the latent possibilities of ‘writing’ indigenous forms of international relations. Drawing upon one pre-colonial account of Southeast Asian political practices in the Malay Archipelago, the Sejarah Melayu, this article proposes that Southeast Asia has actually philosophised about “inter-societal relations” that privilege noble prowess, knowledge accumulation, and hierarchical justice through interdependence of trade and religion within the region, and with India, China and the Arab world. As a consequence, this pattern of non-western precedents poses intellectual challenges to the baggage of modern thinking about border security in Southeast Asia. [PLEASE EMAIL ME DIRECTLY AT polccs@nus.edu.sg IF YOU WOULD LIKE A COPY OF THE FULL PAPER.] ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]