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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
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The presentation predicts the influence of ASEAN power!
It is a full presentation about the economy of the Southeast Asia.
Acknowledgement : this presentation stems from two parts, firstly, it's my own made presentaion from collecting data from many sources such as world bank, UN statistics, and ADB. Also, it's conglomeration of many slide presentation, especially, about the financial situation in region from many academicians. It is my grateful to say Thanks for all of the presentation.
Association of Southeast Asian Nations - ASEAN - International Business - Man...manumelwin
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
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This a Presentation on AU, EU, APEC, NAFTA, AFTA, SAPTA, LAFTA, ASEAN. I have made this based on my assignment what is based on some trade organizations :-)
Global Recession And Its Impact On The Asian Economyguest5e256f8
Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas is a renowned economist. A PhD in Economics from Harvard, he is referred to as "Professor of Boom"!!
The presentation predicts the influence of ASEAN power!
It is a full presentation about the economy of the Southeast Asia.
Acknowledgement : this presentation stems from two parts, firstly, it's my own made presentaion from collecting data from many sources such as world bank, UN statistics, and ADB. Also, it's conglomeration of many slide presentation, especially, about the financial situation in region from many academicians. It is my grateful to say Thanks for all of the presentation.
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“Looking Towards ASEAN community 2015: Constraints, Obstacles and Opportunities” seminar on 21 April 2011 at Chulalongkorn University
Presentation by Ong Keng Yong, Ambassador-at-Large, Singapore
“Looking Towards ASEAN community 2015: Constraints, Obstacles and Opportunities” seminar on 21 April 2011 at Chulalongkorn University
So what actually is ASEAN and what is the forthcoming Asian Economic Community of 2015 and perhaps more importantly what will be the potential opportunities for foreign investment for both multinational companies and organisations such as SME’s within the AEC in just over two years’ time?
Well with the aforementioned questions in mind ‘The brief guide to ASEAN and the Asian Economic Community’ is designed to answer all of those questions and more and is written as an easy to use and quick reference guide to the subject.
The guide covers the most common topics relating to the subject matter and includes a brief history of ASEAN and a historical timeline of key events. In addition, there is information pertaining to ASEAN’s structure, abiding philosophy and aims, ASEAN’s global trade statistics, ASEAN’s affiliate partners and an introduction, and critical analysis of the forthcoming AEC.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN) is a regional intergovernmental organization comprising ten countries in Southeast Asia, which promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, security, military, educational, and sociocultural integration among its members and other countries in Asia.
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1. Looking Towards ASEAN Community 2015: Constraints, Obstacles and Opportunities By Professor Dr.SurakiartSathirathai Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand Distinguished Scholar, Chulalongkorn University Organized by Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University In cooperation with Siam Intelligence Unit (SIU) April 21st, 2011 Room 105, MahaChulalongkorn Building, Chulalongkorn University
2. Positive Developments 1) The first time to have “Community” as the target thus, being more visible in the world radar screen. 2) The first time to have a roadmap of ASEAN Community, i.e. to have 3 pillars ASC AEC all with action plans ASCC
3. 3) There has been relatively concrete negotiation on action plans and blueprint, many programs are tangible, doable. 4) There have been FTAs between ASEAN and other countries despite the fact that there is no Trade Minister of ASEAN (ASEAN-China, ASEAN- Japan etc.)
4. 5) ASEAN activities have been more visible: in economic field, tourism cooperation, cultural, educational, youth activities, more people to people contact under ASEAN roof, and more media coverage about ASEAN community target. 6) There have been attempts to create the sense of community eg. ASEAN VISA, ASEAN flags to fly with national flags at all government buildings, and embassies.
5. 7) More ASEAN stands on selected world issues eg. Myanmar. - Therefore open intra and extra ASEAN opportunities in many fields as a large market of almost 600 million people.
6. II. Constraints for Becoming “ASEAN Community” 1) There is a lack of the sense of ownership, sense of participation and therefore, lack of the sense of community in the heart and mind of the people of ASEAN.
7. a) There is a lack of interactions among civil societies. For ASEAN For Extra – ASEAN, Eg. Joint research with Dialogue partners, or research on dialogue partners’ strategies towards ASEAN
8. b) There is a lack of people participation in the ASEAN. decision making process and in policy and strategy formulation. Most of these issues rest in the hand of bureaucrats, politicians from the executive branch of each country.
9. c) There are no common external policies. - No common foreign policy – eg. 9/11, Iraq - No common security policy – start a bit on Malacca straits - No common defense policy - No common external ec. relations policy eg. no Common External Tariff - No common governance policy - No harmonization of legal system eg. VAT. Immigration law, Transportation Law etc.
10. d) Lack of “ASEAN Affairs Come First” principle eg. Compare to EU e) Lack of regular informal meetings among leaders, ministers and policy makers from all branches of each country (Speakers, MPs, Judges) But, may be appropriate that ASEAN does not have these common policies because, if so A SEAN might have not been intact until today. We, therefore, have a sense of community in “ASEAN Way”.
11. 2) ASEAN is too sensitive to outside pressure Eg. Myanmar, responded to periodic outside pressures rather than having ASEAN’s initiative on roadmap for democracy and national reconciliation in Myanmar.
12. 3) Domestic Political Problems of Each Member Thailand - could not organize ASEAN and EAS summits in 2009 - could not detach bilateral issue between Thailand and Cambodia from ASEAN affairs. Eg. Sharp exchanges through the press between two leaders at the opening of ASEAN summit in Hua-Hin
13. 4) Lack of Confidence on the Progress for Conflict Avoidance: Confidence Building Preventive Diplomacy Conflict Resolution Aceh – positive Myanmar - domestic affairs VS. Roadmap for Democracy, and Bangkok Process in 2003
14. Troika? Role of ASEAN Chair? Role of Friends of The Chair? Shuttle Diplomacy? Thailand VS Cambodia – Despite Thailand’s repeated references to the conflict as bilateral, the role of third party is clearly seen.
15. — Shuttle diplomacy by Indonesian FM as ASEAN Chair. — Presence of ASEAN Chair at UNSC — UNSC tasks ASEAN to implement ceasefire — Almost unprecedented Special (emergency) ASEAN FM meeting on Thailand – Cambodia conflicts and agreement by both parties for Indonesian observer team to implement ceasefire.
16. — Meeting of bilateral GBC (later cancelled) and JBC between Thailand and Cambodia In Indonesia with good office and presence of Indonesian FM as ASEAN Chairs. — This is a test for conflict avoidance and dispute resolution in ASEAN. — If ASEAN attempt fails, this issue can be a setback for ASEAN and can affect confidence in ASEAN to resolve internal conflicts, thus affecting confidence for ASEAN community in 2015
17. 5) Lack of or Little Intra – Regional Grouping Relations ASEAN-SAARC ASEAN-EU ASEAN-GCC ASEAN-PIF ASEAN-NEPAD ASEAN-CARICOM ASEAN and Sub-regional groupings in Africa, Latin America. Thus, no compelling force for ASEAN to get together and formulate ASEAN strategy, position ad policies towards other regional groupings.
18. 6) Lack of Common Positions in Multi-Lateral Fora - UN (UNSC, UNGA, Human Rights Council, UNCTAD, etc) - WTO - APEC - ASEM - UNFCCC (Climate change) The common positions (on even certain topics) will raise consciousness of being a community.
19. 7) Individual Country still has a High Sense of “National Issue” — Ec. – Reluctant to liberalize even among ASEAN. — Security – Domestic Affairs. — Social/political issues eg. Labour, Human Rights, Democracy, etc. – Domestic affairs.
20. 8) lack of Roadmap for ASEAN’s Asia Architecture — Risk being influenced or led by major powers. — Risk losing ASEAN centrality, not to be in the driver seat eg. ASEAN+3 ASEAN+8 (EAS), GMS, EAFTA, ACD. — Unclear of how EAS, ACD could lead to Asia community.
21. 9) Need Further Focus on ASEAN Connectivity. — Lack of relationship between land and sea link to make all ASEAN participate in ASEAN connectivity. — Western Corridor, too slow and unclear to make EWEC attractive to outsiders. — Need much in depth understanding of China’s strategy for Yunnan and Pan Beibu Gulf Economic Cooperation which focuses on Guangxi Zhuang to connect with ASEAN.
22. Conclusion 1) ASEAN + non ASEAN people must understand that ASEAN community actually is “ASEAN way Community”. 2) Certain problem may not be a problems but rather ASEAN normal practice: - Non-legalistic, non-adversarial society - Step by step But if look at (+expect) ASEAN to be like EU, or AU or other regional group problem because it’s not ASEAN
23. 3) Problems, obstacles, constraints may be strength of ASEAN - Step - by – step, gradual process. - Focus on confidence building, building comfort level. - Non – legalistic, non – adversarial society. - Acknowledging differences and building strength out of diversity.
24. 4) Perhaps need once more an “Eminent Person Group” to bring in proposals and ideas from all sectors to analyse and to understand the real characteristic of ASEAN Community.
25. Looking Towards ASEAN Community 2015: Constraints, Obstacles and Opportunities By Professor Dr.SurakiartSathirathai Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand Distinguished Scholar, Chulalongkorn University Organized by Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University In cooperation with Siam Intelligence Unit (SIU) April 21st, 2011 Room 105, MahaChulalongkorn Building, Chulalongkorn University