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fORTY YEARS AGO, WHEN Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand formed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), few would have forecast that it would eventually include all of Southeast Asia At the time, the Vietnam war still had eight years to run, Indonesia and Malaysia had just ended hostilities and the Khmer Rouge were yet to take power in Cambodia. Since ASEAN has no mechanism to deal with such issues, members have referred decisions to international organisations such as the International Court of Justice and the World Trade Organization. If the Association is able to fulfil economic convergence obligations in the free trade agreements, it may be able to move beyond economics and regain some of the international attention it has lacked since the Asian financial crisis.
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fORTY YEARS AGO, WHEN Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand formed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), few would have forecast that it would eventually include all of Southeast Asia At the time, the Vietnam war still had eight years to run, Indonesia and Malaysia had just ended hostilities and the Khmer Rouge were yet to take power in Cambodia.
But while it has survived, and expanded, progress has been sl...See the full content of this document
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