ASEAN Political-Security Community
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ASEAN Framework Action Plan on Rural Development and Poverty Eradication (2011-2015) | Outlines the priorities, plan of action, and operational strategies of ASEAN in its poverty eradication efforts during 2011-2015. Aims to support the sustainable development of rural areas and the eradication of food insecurity in the ASEAN region. Notes that 70% of the poor in Southeast Asia live in rural areas and are active in agriculture, forestry, and fishery. Adds that the growing urban poverty is rooted out of rural poverty. Outlines r ...Continue Reading | English | 86495 | |
ASEAN Framework Action Plan on Rural Development and Poverty Eradication (2011-2015) | Outlines the priorities, plan of action, and operational strategies of ASEAN in its poverty eradication efforts during 2011-2015. Aims to support the sustainable development of rural areas and the eradication of food insecurity in the ASEAN region. Notes that 70% of the poor in Southeast Asia live in rural areas and are active in agriculture, forestry, and fishery. Adds that the growing urban poverty is rooted out of rural poverty. Outlines r ...Continue Reading | English | 86495 | |
ASEAN 2030: Toward a Borderless Economic Community: Draft Executive Summary | Constitutes a part of a wider ADB Institute study entitled ASEAN, PRC and India: The Great Transformation, which analyzes the 2030 growth potential of these economies and the challenges they face. Contributes to forging a longer-term strategy beyond the creation of the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015 for shared prosperity of ASEAN's members, the wider ASEAN region, and the world at large. Uses a bottom-up approach and bases its results on ...Continue Reading | English | 86494 | |
ASEAN 2030: Toward a Borderless Economic Community: Draft Executive Summary | Constitutes a part of a wider ADB Institute study entitled ASEAN, PRC and India: The Great Transformation, which analyzes the 2030 growth potential of these economies and the challenges they face. Contributes to forging a longer-term strategy beyond the creation of the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015 for shared prosperity of ASEAN's members, the wider ASEAN region, and the world at large. Uses a bottom-up approach and bases its results on ...Continue Reading | English | 86494 | |
ASEAN Roadmap for the Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals | Explains that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mirror ASEAN's commitment to building a caring and sharing community by 2015. Notes that the MDGs' goals and targets for improving wellbeing and reducing poverty are in line with the purposes of ASEAN. Notes that ASEAN member states have made remarkable progress towards the full achievement of the MDGs. Points out that significant challenges remain, notably narrowing the development gaps wit ...Continue Reading | English | 86493 | |
Multi-Level Governance the ASEAN Way | Schreurs, Miranda A | Notes that regional cooperation in Southeast Asia has been strongly influenced by its history. Explains that independence was slow to come to many Southeast Asian states, and often followed by bloody internal strife, dictatorships and military rule. Reviews the creation of an ASEAN Community from 1967 until 2010, including the adoption of the community blueprints in 2009. Comments on the pressures ASEAN has felt for the development of more regi ...Continue Reading | English | 86469 |
Multi-Level Governance the ASEAN Way | Schreurs, Miranda A | Notes that regional cooperation in Southeast Asia has been strongly influenced by its history. Explains that independence was slow to come to many Southeast Asian states, and often followed by bloody internal strife, dictatorships and military rule. Reviews the creation of an ASEAN Community from 1967 until 2010, including the adoption of the community blueprints in 2009. Comments on the pressures ASEAN has felt for the development of more regi ...Continue Reading | English | 86469 |
Multi-Level Governance the ASEAN Way | Schreurs, Miranda A | Notes that regional cooperation in Southeast Asia has been strongly influenced by its history. Explains that independence was slow to come to many Southeast Asian states, and often followed by bloody internal strife, dictatorships and military rule. Reviews the creation of an ASEAN Community from 1967 until 2010, including the adoption of the community blueprints in 2009. Comments on the pressures ASEAN has felt for the development of more regi ...Continue Reading | English | 86469 |
Dawei Special Economic Zone | Warisara Panuwat | Focuses on Dawei Development Project. Provides background information of Dawei and Dawei special economic zone. Discusses impacts of Dawei Development Project to Thailand and Myanmar, dealing with how to make Kanchanaburi to special economic zone, cooperation in Dawei Development Project between Thailand and Myanmar, and investors in the project. Deals with benefits of the project to Thailand, and roles of Thai government in the project. Fore ...Continue Reading | Thai | 86468 |
EU-Indonesia Relations: No Expectations-Capability Gap? | Camroux, David | Draws on the postulate of an expectations-capability gap in the bilateral relations with states and regional entities. Argues that no such gap exists in EU-Indonesia relations. Suggests of European Union (EU) that this is because expectations are low, thus entailing the use of minimal capabilities. Explores the reasons for these low expectations and limited capabilities by reviewing history. Looks at Indonesia's colonial experience with a m ...Continue Reading | English | 86416 |
Security and the Role of China | Xinning Song | Introduces China's attention to regional security in Asia, mentioning the relationships with neighbours e.g. China joined the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in 1991, ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in 1994. Lists China's main concerns in regional security as including the North Korean nuclear program the Taiwan issue the South China Sea issue Islamic fundamentalism border disputes with its neighbors and non-traditional security threats ...Continue Reading | English | 86410 |
Security and the Role of China | Xinning Song | Introduces China's attention to regional security in Asia, mentioning the relationships with neighbours e.g. China joined the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in 1991, ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in 1994. Lists China's main concerns in regional security as including the North Korean nuclear program the Taiwan issue the South China Sea issue Islamic fundamentalism border disputes with its neighbors and non-traditional security threats ...Continue Reading | English | 86410 |
Security and the Role of China | Xinning Song | Introduces China's attention to regional security in Asia, mentioning the relationships with neighbours e.g. China joined the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in 1991, ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in 1994. Lists China's main concerns in regional security as including the North Korean nuclear program the Taiwan issue the South China Sea issue Islamic fundamentalism border disputes with its neighbors and non-traditional security threats ...Continue Reading | English | 86410 |
The ASEAN Regional Forum and the EU's Role in Promoting Security in the Asia-Pacific | Weber, Katja | Examines the role of European Union (EU) in the principal forum for security cooperation in Asia-Pacific. Argues that, while both the EU and the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) agree on the need to tackle human security issues such as terrorism, organized crime or disaster relief. Suggests that this is due to diverging considerations of state sovereignty. Describes the EU's focus on economic development, experience sharing in regional integration, ...Continue Reading | English | 86408 |
The ASEAN Regional Forum and the EU's Role in Promoting Security in the Asia-Pacific | Weber, Katja | Examines the role of European Union (EU) in the principal forum for security cooperation in Asia-Pacific. Argues that, while both the EU and the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) agree on the need to tackle human security issues such as terrorism, organized crime or disaster relief. Suggests that this is due to diverging considerations of state sovereignty. Describes the EU's focus on economic development, experience sharing in regional integration, ...Continue Reading | English | 86408 |
The Asia-Europe Meeting | Yeo, Lay Hwee | Reviews the ASEM process since its launch in 1996 and gives reasons for its conception. Highlights its large expansion from 26 to 48 partners over 14 years and the expected joining of new members such as Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Norway and Switzerland. Mentions the long-established inter-regional dialogue channel between ASEAN and European Union (EU) as ASEAN invited China, Japan, and South Korea to constitute the Asian side of ASEM, whil ...Continue Reading | English | 86407 |
The Institutional Dimension of EU-ASEAN/ASEAN Plus Three Inter-Regional Relations | Manea, Maria-Gabriela | Uses a historical, institutional, and a social constructivist perspective to emphasize institutional innovation, dynamism and transformation over institutional inertia in EU-ASEAN relations. Makes conceptual comments on the term of inter-regional institutionalization. Reviews the history of EU-ASEAN relations since 1972, highlighting how this process was shaped by changing global, regional and domestic contexts from the height of the Cold War t ...Continue Reading | English | 86406 |
The Institutional Dimension of EU-ASEAN/ASEAN Plus Three Inter-Regional Relations | Manea, Maria-Gabriela | Uses a historical, institutional, and a social constructivist perspective to emphasize institutional innovation, dynamism and transformation over institutional inertia in EU-ASEAN relations. Makes conceptual comments on the term of inter-regional institutionalization. Reviews the history of EU-ASEAN relations since 1972, highlighting how this process was shaped by changing global, regional and domestic contexts from the height of the Cold War t ...Continue Reading | English | 86406 |
The Institutional Dimension of EU-ASEAN/ASEAN Plus Three Inter-Regional Relations | Manea, Maria-Gabriela | Uses a historical, institutional, and a social constructivist perspective to emphasize institutional innovation, dynamism and transformation over institutional inertia in EU-ASEAN relations. Makes conceptual comments on the term of inter-regional institutionalization. Reviews the history of EU-ASEAN relations since 1972, highlighting how this process was shaped by changing global, regional and domestic contexts from the height of the Cold War t ...Continue Reading | English | 86406 |
The Evolution of EU-Asia Relations: 2001-2011 | Cameron, Fraser | Deals with the European Commission's communication Europe and Asia: A Strategic Framework for Enhanced Partnerships issued in 2001, which set out a comprehensive strategic framework for the grouping's relations with Asia. Reviews the European Union's efforts to implement the six main aims outlined in the communication. Argues that foreign policy decisions, institutional disputes and the eurozone crisis have damaged EU attempts to portray itse ...Continue Reading | English | 86403 |