ASEAN has significant achievements to its credit. It is a durable and effective functioning entity, more so than any …, ASEAN has played a role in delivering relative peace and stability in the region, which has in turn facilitated rapid … economic development. Yet ASEAN has not progressed very far in terms of becoming a formal economic entity. But its own brand of …

The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is the largest integration effort attempted in the developing world; if realized, it … leads to free trade agreements with key external partners. Every ASEAN member will share in these benefits. There will be … poses political challenges: the study finds that the project will imply significant structural adjustment in several ASEAN …

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is strategically significant because of its size, dynamism, and role … in the Asian economic and security architectures. This paper examines how ASEAN seeks to strengthen these assets through … maximize regional incomes and benefit all member economies: first, selective engagement by ASEAN members in productive external …

The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) was set up in 2003 with the objectives of creating a single market and production …