Distracted ASEAN? Where To For ASEAN Centrality?
Teodoro, Joycee A. | December 2016
Abstract
The ASEAN Charter and key documents, such as the ASEAN Community Vision 2025: Forging Ahead Together, explicitly state that ASEAN maintains its centrality in the regional processes and in the conduct of its external affairs. Maintaining centrality is crucial to ASEAN’s success as a regional bloc and critical to its relevance in the international arena. Moreover, through ASEAN centrality, a rules-based regional order is promoted and developed, consequently diffusing potential tension and con-flict between and among states, whether big or small. ASEAN centrality rests on the idea that ASEAN has the capacity to play a leading and driver role vis-à-vis regional agenda setting. It also puts premium on ASEAN’s ability to act as leader, driver, and fulcrum of regional initiatives in relating with its external partners, while promoting, first and foremost, ASEAN’s own interests.
Citation
Teodoro, Joycee A.. 2016. Distracted ASEAN? Where To For ASEAN Centrality?. © Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/6939.Keywords
Government Policy
Regional Organization
Regional Plans
Economic integration
Regional Development Bank
Preferential tariffs
International negotiation
Protectionist measures
Access to markets
Economic agreements
International trade law
Regional integration
Trade relations
Regionalism
Regional Economy
Regional Trading Arrangements
Regional Trade Integration
Regional Economic Integration
Regional Cooperation
Interregional Cooperation
Trade Disputes
Trade Barriers
Regional economics
Regional planning
Regional disparities
Interregionalism
Regional economic disparities
Regional economic blocs
Industrial arbitration
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