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ASEAN’s Impact. Since its inception in 1967, ASEAN has helped shape Southeast Asia. Economically, ASEAN has encouraged free trade and foreign investment in the region. The 1992 ASEAN Free Trade Area removed tariffs on nearly 8,000 items, increasing business access to neighboring markets and lowering prices of goods for consumers, while the ...
Sep 27, 2021 · ABSTRACT. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) pursuit for a Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality (ZOPFAN) first began during the Cold War, at a time of intense superpower rivalry in Southeast Asia. ASEAN reaffirmed the importance of this principle in 2020, amid growing concerns of instability in the Asia-Pacific region as a ...
- Laura Southgate
- 2021
Dec 27, 2016 · In many ways, ASEAN is a political miracle and over the last five decades has faced significant challenges. If ASEAN can learn from its past, the miracle may continue well into the 21st century ...
- Termsak Chalermpalanupap
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [ c ] commonly abbreviated as ASEAN, [ d ] is a political and economic union of 10 states in Southeast Asia. Together, its member states represent a population of more than 600 million people and land area of over 4.5 million km 2 (1.7 million sq mi). [ 13 ] The bloc generated a purchasing power ...
Sep 25, 2009 · Put another way, because ASEAN-Southeast Asia is more normatively established—it is a region with internal recognition and is thus understood as deserving to exist, not subsumed as a subregion—recent East Asian regionalism efforts are being critically shaped by the negotiation between ASEAN-Southeast Asia and East Asia as a whole. Regional-global negotiations alone do not capture ...
- Alice D Ba
- 2009
political and cultural dimensions underpinning the move towards ASEAN 10, centrifugal forces have already begun to exert themselves. There is a danger that Southeast Asia as a larger political entity will be divided by competing regional and extra-regional interests, especially in the wake of the economic crisis.
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The paper posits that Southeast Asia’s historical experiences of outside interference played a key role in shaping the ASEAN Way and its politico-normative emphasis on non-interference. The paper subsequently examines how the ASEAN Way has shaped regional integration processes, specifically in the case of economic integration.
