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• A short history of ASEAN
• The road to the ASEAN Charter
• Drafting the ASEAN Charter
• Annex 1: ASEAN Sectorial Ministerial Bodies
• Annex 2: Entities associated with ASEAN
• Annex 3: ASEAN flag
• Annex 4: ASEAN emblem.

Forty years after the Bangkok Declaration, which established the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a new document was drafted as a result of "bold and visionary recommendations" of an ASEAN Committee of Eminent Persons. The ASEAN Charter, which came into force in 2008, provides ASEAN's legal status and institutional framework. In effect, it is a legally binding agreement among the 10 ASEAN Member States. And while the strength of ASEAN's legal character has yet to be fully tested, the Charter is important as a statement of shared norms and aspirations. Written by one of the persons involved in the negotiations leading to the adoption of the Charter, this meticulously researched publication helps readers navigate the ambiguities of the Charter by detailing an insider's background, provision by provision, of the debates that went into the making of the ASEAN Charter. It not only explains how the provisions of the Charter came to be drafted, but also how they relate to therealities of diplomatic practice. This volume will be an indispensable reference for scholars, working diplomats, and businesses and institutions that have a stake in ASEAN.
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• General editors' preface
• 1. Introduction and purpose
• 2. Foundations of economic integration fundamentals, stages and credibility
• 3. Conceptual foundation of the ASEAN Economic Community?
• 4. Implementation of the AEC: progress in adopting instruments from the Roadmap
• 5. A reality check: comparing the AEC and NAFTA on substance
• 6. Options for the AEC and their practical implications
• 7. Conclusions
• Executive summary
• Appendix
• References
• Index.
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has experienced rapid economic growth for many years. Although the population of ASEAN is larger than the EU-28, the emerging ASEAN market, called the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), is still little understood by policy makers in many parts of the world, by business professionals and students, as well as by scholars in economics, business, politics and economic law. This book provides, for the first time, a rigorous analytical approach of the new AEC and its intricacies. It sets out its ambition, scrutinises its economic integration logic and detects its deficits. Besides a detailed analysis of the AEC Roadmap, the book also elaborates on its achievements. Several strategic economic options for the AEC, in particular as an instrument to accelerate the economic development of the region, are explored.
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• Introduction and purpose
• Foundations of economic integration fundamentals, stages and credibility
• Conceptual foundation of the ASEAN Economic Community
• Implementation of the AEC : progress in adopting instruments from the roadmap
• A reality check : comparing the AEC and NAFTA on substance
• Options for the AEC and their practical implications
• Conclusions.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has experienced rapid economic growth for many years. Although the population of ASEAN is larger than the EU-28, the emerging ASEAN market, called the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), is still little understood by policy makers in many parts of the world, by business professionals and students, as well as by scholars in economics, business, politics and economic law. This book provides, for the first time, a rigorous analytical approach of the new AEC and its intricacies. It sets out its ambition, scrutinises its economic integration logic and detects its deficits. Besides a detailed analysis of the AEC Roadmap, the book also elaborates on its achievements. Several strategic economic options for the AEC, in particular as an instrument to accelerate the economic development of the region, are explored.
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• Development, governance, and rule of law in ASEAN / Diane A. Desierto
• Pre-charter and post-charter ASEAN : cross-pillar decision-making in the master plan for ASEAN connectivity / Diane A. Desierto
• ASEAN law : content, applicability, and challenges / Kevin Y.L. Tan
• ASEAN's regional economic regulators / Timothy Buehrer
• ASEAN trade in goods / Edmund W. Sim
• ASEAN trade in services / Pasha L. Hsieh
• Horizontal embeddedness, business and human rights : fostering the corporate responsibility to respect human rights within the ASEAN community / Michelle Staggs Kelsall
• ASEAN's foreign investment regime / Diane A. Desierto
• The rule of law and human rights in ASEAN : towards a "rules-based" community? / David Cohen

Since the passage of the ASEAN Charter in 2008, ASEAN has transformed itself from a loose economic cooperation, into a formal intergovernmental organization designed to create an "ASEAN Community" forged together in three pillar communities - the ASEAN Political-Security Community, ASEAN Economic Community, and tASEAN Socio-Cultural Community. Forty years of pre-Charter ASEAN practices, coupled with over ten years of post-Charter ASEAN practices thus far, has witnessed the conclusion of hundreds of legally binding regional treaties and similarly binding international instruments in all areas of economic, political-security, and socio-cultural concerns for Southeast Asia to achieve ASEAN's rule of law-based development objective. Pre-Charter and post-Charter ASEAN Law is variably implemented under a hybrid governance system that depends heavily on ASEAN Member State national implementation alongside ASEAN's evolving regional institutions. The result is not a model of deep integration as in the case of the European Union, but a particular paradigm of horizontal embeddedness of ASEAN Law - in all its norms and operational practices - contingent on the capacities and compliance of national government bureaucracies in Southeast Asia. This edited collection is a concise authoritative volume covering the practical, doctrinal, legal, and policy aspects of the new regime of ASEAN Law and its consequences for realizing rule of law-based development in Southeast Asia's emerging single market and production base. Drawing together contributions from a range of key thinkers in the field, the editors present the legal and policy-making issues implicated in the practical implementation of Southeast Asia's single market and its regime for the free movement of goods, services, foreign investment, and cross-border labor. The book also examines the nature of regional law-making under ASEAN before and after the commencement of regional integration in 2015, the nature of ASEAN's economic regulators, as well as the evolving structure for enforcement and harmonization of "ASEAN Law" through the array of Southeast Asian national courts, arbitral tribunals, and incipient mechanisms for inter-State, intra-regional, and individual-State conflict management and dispute resolution. This book is highly relevant to students, scholars, and policy-makers with an interest in ASEAN Law and regional policy, and to Southeast Asian studies in general.
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• ASEAN law in the new regional economic order : an introductory roadmap to the ASEAN Economic Community / Pasha L. Hsieh and Bryan Mercurio
• The ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement : evolution and regional implications / Minh Hue Nguyen, Deborah Elms, Lavanya N
• Building toward the RCEP? : reflections on the ASEAN-China FTA / Heng Wang
• Dispute settlement provisions in ASEAN's external economic agreements with China, Japan and Korea / Henry Gao
• Moving toward liberalization : the ATISA and beyond / Bryan Mercurio
• Challenges of ASEAN MRAs on professional services / Yoshifumi Fukunaga
• Banking integration in ASEAN and the challenges of regulatory cooperation / Federico Lupo-Pasini
• The shifting sands of capital market development and integration in ASEAN : the case of the Philippines and Indonesia / Michelle Dy
• Transnational legal services in Asia : legal implications of the AEC and the CPTPP / Pasha L. Hsieh
• ASEAN air transport integration and liberalization : a slow but practical model / Jae Woon Lee
• Investment liberalization in ASEAN : moving from myths to reality / Sufian Jusoh
• The ACIA : much more than a BIT of brotection for foreign investors? / Julien Chaisse
• Fragmented approaches to investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms in intra-ASEAN and extra-ASEAN investment treaties / Trinh Hai Yen
• Pro-development dispute resolution mechanisms and norms for investment and commercial disputes in ASEAN / [Yip] Man
• The AEC and regulatory reforms in CLMV countries with a special focus on Myanmar / Nimnual Piewthongnam
• Free movement of goods and intellectual property exhaustion in ASEAN : a road block in the ASEAN way? / Irene Calboli
• Legal and regulatory challenges to facilitating e-commerce in ASEAN / Eliza Mik
• Data localization and digital trade barriers : ASEAN in megaregionalism / Han-Wei Liu
• Consumer contracts and product safety law in Southeast Asia : partly trading up? / Luke Nottage and Jeannie Paterson
• Conclusion: Realizing the AEC blueprint 2025 / Pasha L. Hsieh and Bryan Mercurio.

The fast-growing last decade of strong economic growth of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has played a critical role in Asia-Pacific regionalism and global trade. This book explores the concept of ASEAN law under the normative framework of the new regional economic order. It examines the roadmap of the new ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint 2025 by evaluating the impact of ASEAN trade agreements on domestic legislation on professional services, financial integration, investment disputes and digital trade. More importantly, it sheds light on the legal implications of ASEAN's agreements with China and India and the potential developments of mega-regional trade agreements such as the CPTPP and the RCEP. Hence, the legal analysis and case studies in the book offer a fresh view of Asia-Pacific integration and bridge the gap between academia and practice.
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• General editors' preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The legal and institutional framework for ASEAN external agreements: the centrality of ASEAN
• 3. An inventory and typology of ASEAN external instruments: overview and trends
• 4. ASEAN as a contracting party
• 5. Beyond market access? The anatomy of ASEAN's preferential trade agreements
• 6. A regional strategy: a typology of ASEAN partnership and co-operation agreements
• 7. Between great-power rivalries and supranationality: ASEAN external instruments and regional hedging strategies
• Executive summary
• Appendices
• Index.
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ASEAN is coming of age as an international actor and international treaty-maker. To date, more than two hundred external agreements and other instruments have been concluded in the name of ASEAN. This book provides the first systematic account of the legal framework governing ASEAN's burgeoning external relations practice. It focuses in depth on ASEAN's wide-ranging mandate to promote its values and principles in the wider region and beyond, as well as the highly intergovernmental, and at times haphazard, handling of the bloc's relations with the outside world. Furthermore, it reveals that there are two basic meanings of ASEAN in its international dealings, which have important implications under international law: ASEAN as an international organisation with its own legal personality and ASEAN as the collectivity of its member states. This timely and thoughtful book is a valuable resource for practitioners and scholars of international law, ASEAN law, international relations, regional integration and governance.
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• General editors' preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The legal and institutional framework for ASEAN external agreements: the centrality of ASEAN
• 3. An inventory and typology of ASEAN external instruments: overview and trends
• 4. ASEAN as a contracting party
• 5. Beyond market access? The anatomy of ASEAN's preferential trade agreements
• 6. A regional strategy: a typology of ASEAN partnership and co-operation agreements
• 7. Between great-power rivalries and supranationality: ASEAN external instruments and regional hedging strategies
• Executive summary
• Appendices
• Index.
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ASEAN is coming of age as an international actor and international treaty-maker. To date, more than two hundred external agreements and other instruments have been concluded in the name of ASEAN. This book provides the first systematic account of the legal framework governing ASEAN's burgeoning external relations practice. It focuses in depth on ASEAN's wide-ranging mandate to promote its values and principles in the wider region and beyond, as well as the highly intergovernmental, and at times haphazard, handling of the bloc's relations with the outside world. Furthermore, it reveals that there are two basic meanings of ASEAN in its international dealings, which have important implications under international law: ASEAN as an international organisation with its own legal personality and ASEAN as the collectivity of its member states. This timely and thoughtful book is a valuable resource for practitioners and scholars of international law, ASEAN law, international relations, regional integration and governance.
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• Part I: The Current Features of East Asian Regionalism from a Comparative Perspective
• 1. Kazushi Shimizu East Asian Regional Economic Cooperation and FTA: Deepening of Intra-ASEAN Economic Cooperation and Expansion throughout East Asia
• 2. Tomoo Marukawa Regionalism and Nationalism in the Information Technology Industry: A Comparison of East Asia and Europe
• 3. Eiji Ogawa and Kentaro Kawasaki East Asian Currency Cooperation
• 4. Barbara Stallings Regional Integration in Latin America: Lessons for East Asia
• 5. Ken-ichi Ando Regionalisation and Regionalism in Europe from the Perspective of Multinational Enterprises
• 6. Kenji Hirashima European Integration in a Historical Perspective: How Did It Begin and What Are the Lessons for Asia? Part II: Present Legal Responses to East Asian Regionalism
• 7. Lawan Thanadsillapakul Legal and Institutional Frameworks for Open Regionalism in Asia: A Case Study of ASEAN
• 8. Dukgeun Ahn Emerging Diversity in Trade Remedy Systems: The Case of East Asian FTAs
• 9. Takao Suami Regional Integration in East Asia and its Legalisation: Can law contribute to the progress of integration in East Asia? Part III Legal Vision of Future East Asian Regionalism: a Draft Charter
• 10. Tamio Nakamura Proposal of the Draft Charter of the East Asian Community: an Overview and the Basic Principles
• 11. Takao Suami Community Policies in the Draft Charter of the East Asian Community: How will Regional Cooperation be Organised within the Community Framework?
• 12. Yoichiro Usui Part Two of the Draft Charter: Constructing an East Asian Acquis
• 13. Yoshiaki Sato "Open regionalism": Creating Multi-Layered Orders in World Governance
• 14. Tamio Nakamura, Takao Suami, Yoichiro Usui and Yoshiaki Sato Draft Charter of the East Asian Community.
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Plenty has been written about the political and economical aspects of regionalism, but the legal perspective has been neglected. "East Asian Regionalism From a Legal Perspective" is unique in synthesizing legal, economic and political analyses. In the first part, the book investigates the current features of regionalism from a comparative perspective, looking at economic and currency cooperation and comparing Asian regionalism with Europe and Latin America. In the second part, the contributors go on to look at the present legal features of regionalism, covering institutional frameworks, trade diversity and regional integration.The third part of the book is truly unique in proposing an essential groundwork for the institutionalisation of an East Asian Community. It conceives a draft East Asian Charter, an essential document that distils what East Asian nations have achieved, and also includes integral principles and fundamental rules for future cooperation among countries and peoples in the region. This book will be of interest to graduates and academics interested in regionalism, international relations, international law and Asian studies.
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• General editors' preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Overview of ASEAN
• 3. Critical nexuses of law and policy
• 4. Improving ASEAN's institutional tools
• 5. Conclusions
• Executive summary
• Appendices
• Index.
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ASEAN has undertaken the complex task of creating a single economic entity for Southeast Asia by 2015 in the form of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), but without regulators or supranational institutions, its implementation has been an inconsistent process. Through comparisons with the EU and NAFTA, this book illustrates the shortcomings of the current system, enabling readers to understand both the potential of regional economic development in ASEAN and its foundational and institutional deficiencies. The authors' analysis of trade in goods and services, investment, and dispute resolution in the AEC indicates that without strong regional institutions, strong dispute resolution or a set of norms, full and effective implementation of the AEC is unlikely to result. The book offers clear solutions for the ASEAN institutions to help the AEC reach its full potential. Written by two leading practitioners, this insightful book will interest policymakers, students and researchers.
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• Chapter 1. Bridging the internal-External Nexus: ASEAN's Human Rights Development / RM Marty M Natalegawa
• Chapter 2. Personal Reflections on the Formation of the ASEAN Interngovernmental Commission on Human Rights / Bilahari Kausikan
• Chapter 3. An Overview of Human Rights Developments in ASEAN / Param Cumaraswamy
• Chapter 4. Civil Society and ASEAN: Of the People, By the People, For the People / Braema Mathi
• Chapter 5. ASEAN Treaty Practice: Trends in the Post-Charter Era / Ranyta Yusran
• Chapter 6. One Vision, Three Communities? Reflections on Human Rights in ASEAN's Community Blueprints / Michelle Staggs Kelsall
• Chapter 7. International Human Rights in the Constitutional Orders of the ASEAN States: A Preliminary Survey / Kevin YL Tan
• Chapter 8. Human Rights and Democracy and the Response of Indonesian Islam / Syafiq Hasyim
• Chapter 9. Women, Customary Law, and Rights to Participate in Decision Making Process: Stories from the Customary Council in Rote and Labuan Bajo / Lidwina Inge Nurtjahyo
• Chapter 10. Imagined Justice in Practice: The Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts in Cambodia / Daniel Mattes
• Chapter 11. Statelessness in ASEAN: Causes and Responses to a Protracted Problem / Rodziana Mohamed Razali and Christoph Sperfeldt
• Chapter 12. Child Marriage in the Eyes of Indonesian Police Officers: A Socio-Legal Perspective / Sulistyowati Irianto and Harkristuti Harkrisnowo / Chapter 13. Human Rights and Peace Education in Singapore / Tamara Nair
• Index

"Human Rights in ASEAN: Indonesian and International Perspectives is a collection of 13 essays that not only offers fresh new insights on the different facets of human rights and their protection in ASEAN, but also 'insider' accounts of the development of the ASEAN Inter-Governmental Commission for Human Rights. These valuable perspectives have never been shared publicly, and offer a view from both the state and non-governmental organisations' (NGO) perspectives. In addition to these valuable perspectives, this book offers a number of significant case studies of how human rights has been implemented, and the challenges it faces in ASEAN in general, and in Indonesia particularly"-- Provided by publisher

• 1. Introduction and parameters of inquiry
• 2. Contextualizing ASEAN
• 3. Types of external agreements
• 4. Agreements of ASEAN as an international organization
• 5. Plurilateral agreements.
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Starting with a typology of ASEAN external agreements, the authors go on to provide an original reading of plurilateral agreements as 'joint' agreements. The book then offers both a clarification of the effects - direct or indirect - of external agreements within the legal orders of ASEAN Member States, and an explanation of the effects of external agreements within the legal regime of ASEAN. The authors conclude with a discussion of the role of ASEAN centrality and the role of the secretariat in shaping it.
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• Country profile : members
• Country profiles : observers
• Relevant treaties. Treaty of amity and cooperation in southeast Asia
• Basic agreement on ASEAN industrial projects
• ASEAN agreement of customs
• Protocol governing the implementation of the ASEAN harmonised tariff nomenclature
• Agreement on the establishment of the ASEAN development fund
• ASEAN petroleum security agreement
• ASEAN multilateral agreement on air services
• Framework agreement on the facilitation of inter-state transport
• ASEAN agreement on the movement of natural persons

This book highlights the main features of the economic, commercial, political, fiscal and financial systems of each of the ASEAN countries from a domestic and an international point of view. Moreover, it analyses the most relevant international treaties signed by ASEAN's members. Published after the 50th anniversary of ASEAN to promote the association, the book is a valuable tool for practitioners who are interested in developing economic activities or investments in this area. .
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• Introduction
• 1. ASEAN as a security institution: its legal, normative and institutional framework
• 2. Nuclear security
• 3. Counter-terrorism
• 4. Maritime security
• 5. Cyber security
• 6. Human trafficking and people smuggling
• 7. Food security
• Conclusion.
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has achieved deeper regional market integration to lay a socio-economic foundation for the development of a regional community, yet inter-state trust is by no means assured as Southeast Asian nations remain steadfast in maintaining their political regime stability against external interference. However, through its institutional practices, ASEAN has emerged as a distinct model of security institution, while the region's contemporary security landscape has diversified with various non-traditional security issues. By looking beyond the veneer of diplomacy and prevailing political circumstances, this book examines the legal nature and form of ASEAN's authority to address diverse regional security issues. It provides a fresh perspective on ASEAN's role as a security institution. With an interdisciplinary analysis, this book reveals the normative role that ASEAN plays in facilitating the processes of norm development, localisation and internalisation as it deals with contemporary security challenges confronting Southeast Asia.
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• The ASEAN Charter: Heart Labor (O Patra)
• The ASEAN Charter: Facing Unfair Criticisms (A F H Abdul Razak)
• The Negotiating Process (T Koh)
• The ASEAN Charter Dispute Settlement Mechanisms (W Woon)
• At Close Quarters with the Drafting of the ASEAN Charter (K Y Ong)
• and other papers.
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On the historic occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2007, the leaders of the ten-member countries signed the ASEAN Charter. This is an important milestone for the regional group as the Charter will make ASEAN stronger, more united and more effective. The Charter embodies the ASEAN community's purposes and principles, organs and decision-making process; a new legal personality; a system for the settlement of disputes; and an ASEAN Human Rights Body.The Making of the ASEAN Charter captures the insiders' views of the drafting of the Charter and hence is a must-read for anyone interested in ASEAN, international law and the art and science of negotiations.
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• Regionalisation of global norms on human rights in Southeast Asia : issues and problems
• The norms : global, local, and the newly-interpreted in-between
• Norm interpreters : character and behaviour
• Policy network : the outer circle with an insider status
• Advocacy coalition : the barking dogs
• Political community : the policymakers
• Regionalizing global human rights norms in Southeast Asia : a lesson learned

This book explains how the ASEAN regional human rights body (AICHR) was created and why it functioned with a promotional rather than protection mandate. It does this by positioning itself within a sizable literature on norm diffusion, and introduces the concept of "Norm Interpreters" to explain what happens when global human rights norms are adopted/adapted within a local context, particularly highlighting the role of a group of individuals in the process. In this respect it adds to the International Relations literature on norm diffusion and the Southeast Asian region specific literature on ASEAN regionalism and AICHR.
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