ASEAN Vision 2040 Volume II: Collective Leadership, ASEAN Centrality, and Strengthening the ASEAN Institutional Ecosystem
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2019
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Tay, Simon
Armstrong, Shiro
Drysdale, Peter
Intal, Ponciano
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Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been celebrated and also much criticised in recent years. Celebrations reached something ofacrestwiththe2015inaugurationoftheASEANCommunity–with economic, political-security and socio-cultural pillars1 – and the group’s 50thanniversaryin2017.Overthesedecades,ASEANhasbecome the convenor of several key forums and Summits not only for its own members but to bring together the major powers in the wider region; these include the ASEAN Regional Forum, the ASEAN Defence Ministers +8 meetings and, for leaders, the East Asia Summit. in this way, ASEAN has emerged as a central actor in the region, offering a form of leadership that belies the group’s lack of major power status.
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