South-East Asian

Nations

Submitted By:-
Shivani Upadhyay Roll No- 154216098
Tanya Choudhary Roll No- 154216109
Shrutikirti Tripathi Roll No- 154216134
Varun Khare Roll No- 154216116
Navdeep Singh Roll No- 154216073
 INTRODUCTION
ASEAN or Association of South East Asian Nations is a confederation of
10 South-East Asian nations namely:
1. Indonesia
2. Malaysia
3. The Philippines
4. Singapore
5. Thailand
6. Brunei
7. Cambodia
8. Laos
9. Myanmar
10.Vietnam
Found in 1967, ASEAN united Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines,
Singapore and Thailand, later joined by Brunei, Laos, Vietnam,
Myanmar and Cambodia.
Principle aim includes accelerating economic growth, social progress
and socio culture evolution among its members, in the era of arising
tension amidst the post-colonisation nations of South-East Asia.
ASEAN covers a land area of 4.4 million sq. Km. which is 3% of
total land area of earth, and the marine area coverage is
approximately three times its land coverage.
The members have signed a pact for non nuclear proliferation, and
even the counter terrorism pact, sharing Intel on any such terror
suspects.
ASEAN deepened cooperation on regional terror threats, like Jemaah
Islamiya, South-East Asian arm of Al Qaida, responsible for Bali
Bombings.
FORMATION OF ASEAN
Origin of ASEAN lies in Association of South East Asia (ASA)
constituted 31st July, 1961 with Malaya, Thailand and The Philippines
as its members.
Established on 8th of august 1967, by Indonesia, Malaysia The
Philippines, Singapore and Thailand in Bangkok.
It was later joint by Brunei Vietnam in 1995, Laos and Myanmar in
1997 and Cambodia in 1999.
Creation was motivated by common fear of communism and thirst of
economical development.
Today ASEAN is considered as one of the most successful inter
governmental organisation in the developing world.
The ASEAN charter of 15 December 2008 turned ASEAN into a legal
entity moving closer to an EU styled community.
Goals of ASEAN
To accelerate the economic growth, social
progress and cultural development in the region.
To promote
I. Regional peace
II. Stability
III. Southeast Asian studies &
IV. Active collaboration and mutual assistance on
matters of common interest in economic, social,
cultural, technical, scientific and administrative
fields.
.To provide assistance to each other in the form of
training and research facilities in the educational,
CHALLENGES FACED BY
ASEAN
ASEAN faces a lot of challenges and still has along
way to go to reach its goal of being the
economically strong confederation it aims at being.
South-east has incredible diversity in terms of
religions, language, ethnicity, culture and laws.
The implementation of agreement reached is still
at a minimum.
More information and technical assistance should
be provided to them.
There should be connectivity between the AEC and
the other two pillars.
ASEAN does not have a common foreign
policy, economic policy or security policy.
There is tension between a rules based
community.
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
ASEANs inauguration and development and
the Associations efforts to deepen its own
cooperation by pursuing development of the
ASEAN economic community.
Confronting ASEAN in pursuing cooperation
and maintaining cohesion.
ASEAN contested interests in the South China
Sea.
CONCLUSION
The India-ASEAN FTA is significant because it is the first multilateral
FTA that India has negotiated till date. Over the last six years, the
hurdles faced by the India-ASEAN FTA. Began with objections that India
had more than 1,400 items on the sensitive or negative list .ASEAN
countries the engine of liberalization and regulatory reform has to be
home-driven with governments taking unilateral, measures in response
to internal and external conditions. In essence, it not only compares
and contrasts trade policies in individual Southeast Asian countries
.India ASEAN cooperation covers the economic, political, security and
development dimensions with a number of mechanisms established to
promote dialogue and cooperation in these areas. Vigorous and
sustained interaction between ASEAN and India would help both
parties in maintaining a high growth path and meet their development
objectives .The fear of India losing its multilateral economic deal
resounds in the rising closeness between the two regions i.e., China
and ASEAN.