ASEAN Community: Unblocking the Roadblocks
About the Publication
This report, the first in the ASEAN Studies Centre report series, begins with a brief account of the important points raised during the discussions made at the workshop on The ASEAN Community: Unblocking the Roadblocks, organized by the ASEAN Studies Centre and the Regional Economic Studies Programme on 15 April 2008. The first endeavour in which the new ASEAN Studies Centre was actively involved, the closed-door workshop gathered Southeast Asian experts on ASEAN for what was essentially a brainstorming session on the nature of the ASEAN Community that the association aspires to be, segmented into its three pillars the ASEAN Economic Community, the ASEAN Security Community, and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community. The session examined the benefits expected from regional community building for the people of Southeast Asia and the obstacles that lay on the way to its achievement. The workshop suggested certain measures for removing those obstacles. It then discussed the newly signed ASEAN Charter: the significance of its provisions, how it could help build the ASEAN Community, and how it might fall short of doing so. The workshop also heard a short briefing on the aims and functions of the ASEAN Studies Centre and proffered suggestions for it.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ASEAN Community: Unblocking the Roadblocks
Preliminary pages
Session I: Identifying the Roadblocks to ASEAN Economic Integration
Session II: Whither the ASEAN Regional Forum?
Session III: Designing a Blueprint for the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community
Session IV: Does the ASEAN Charter Really Matter?
BACKGROUND PAPERS
Towards an ASEAN Economic Community by 2015
by: Denis Hew Wei-Yen
Implementing the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint
by: Hadi Soesastro
Towards an ASEAN Economic Community:
Matching the Hardware with the Operating System
by: Eduardo Pedrosa
Whither the ASEAN Regional Forum?
by: Rodolfo C Severino
The ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community
by: Carolina S Guina
The ASEAN Charter and a Legal Identity for ASEAN
by: Locknie Hsu
The ASEAN Charter: Making Sense out of Mixed Responses
by: Mely Caballero-Anthony
Reproduced from ASEAN Community: Unblocking the Roadblocks (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009). This version was obtained electronically direct from the publisher on condition that copyright is not infringed. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the prior permission of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Individual articles are available at <http://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg>.
