Leaders of ASEAN member states gather in Singapore this week for the 32nd ASEAN Summit to decide the ASEAN agenda for the year. They will give policy guidance on the parameters and deliverables of a Resilient and Innovative ASEAN. As is the practice, ASEAN watchers will go through its outcome documents, especially the Chairman’s Statement, to gauge ASEAN’s positions on important strategic and economic ...

The ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) is ASEAN’s first and longest standing institution. Over the past five decades, ASEAN has developed a full fledged institutional structure with the ASEAN Summit at the apex and various sectoral ministerial bodies, but the AMM continues to be a focal institution in the ASEAN process. The images of ASEAN at work often convey a notion of formality, with dignitaries ...