democracy and human rights within ASEAN, this paper examines Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA) to ASEAN during the … human rights and democracy in recipient countries when providing foreign aid. By comparing Japanese ODA flows to ASEAN … ASEAN’s increasing importance for Japan, as a growing market and a strategic hedge against what is perceived as increased …

China [PRC])2 in the 1940s and 1950s, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) since 1967, and Indonesia in the … context of Asia as a whole) have lacked the necessary resources. The result has been that while the ASEAN-led Asian …

India has an emerging web of cooperation with East Asian countries, especially ASEAN through the ASEAN-India dialogue …-Ganga cooperation and the BIMST-EC. In this discussion paper the ASEAN Secretary-General focuses on the need to develop a partnership … between ASEAN and India that has the dual objectives of addressing the challenges of globalisation and working closely to reap …

still present and can be proven by analyzing ASEAN legal texts such as the ASEAN Charter, ASEAN Human Rights Declaration and … ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights Terms of Reference as well as internal negotiation dynamics surrounding … the AHRD. Some ASEAN states in their internal negotiations surrounding the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration demonstrated a …