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Know your ASEAN -- Contents -- 1. ASEAN's members -- 2. Founders and date of birth -- 3. Reason for setting up ASEAN -- 4. Dates of admission of newer members -- 5. Important accomplishments -- 6. Non-interference in internal affairs -- 7. ASEAN and human rights -- 8. ASEAN and Myanmar -- 9. Regional peace and stability -- 10. ASEAN and the South China Sea -- 11. ASEAN is not a military alliance -- 12. The ASEAN Regional Forum -- 13. The Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia -- 14. The Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone -- 15. Increasing jobs and reducing poverty -- 16. The development gap -- 18. Regional economic stability -- 17. Trading within ASEAN -- 19. Promoting tourism -- 20. Protecting the regional environment -- 21. Dealing with communicable diseases -- 22. Combating international terrorism, illicit drugs and transnational crime -- 23. Coping with natural disasters -- 24. ASEAN and women's issues -- 25. The regional cultural heritage -- 27. The ASEAN Secretariat -- 26. Bringing young people together -- 28. The ASEAN Charter -- 29. ASEAN's flag and emblem -- 30. Working in the Secretariat -- 32. Managing ASEAN's affairs -- 31. Funding ASEAN -- 33. Making ASEAN decisions -- 34. ASEAN's working language -- 35. ASEAN and the international community -- 36. The Dialogue system -- 37. ASEAN Dialogue Partners -- 38. Working with the United Nations -- 39. Working with the Asian Development Bank -- 40. Learning about ASEAN -- Photo pages.

ASEAN economic community blueprint -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. ASEAN roundtable 2008: ASEAN economic community blueprint -- ASEAN roundtable 2008: ASEAN economic community blueprint -- II. Background papers -- 1. Tackling non-tariff barriers in ASEAN -- 2. Regional framework for competition policy and AEC -- 3. Achieving an integrated ASEAN economic community: the role of infrastructure development? -- 4. How less developed economies in Southeast Asia can participate in production networks: industrial policy in the WTO and FTA era -- Annex I: Programme -- Annex II: List of participants -- Annex III: List of NTBs affecting the ASEAN priority sectors for integration.

Global financial crisis : implications for ASEAN -- Contents -- Preface -- Global Financial Crisis and Implications for Asean -- Commentaries: In Response to lead article, "Global Financial Crisis and Implications for ASEAN", by Masahiro Kawai -- Commentary: Charles Adams -- Commentary: V. Anantha-Nageswaran -- Commentary: Michael Lim Mah Hui -- Commentary: Pradumna B. Rana -- Commentary: Lim Chin -- What ASEAN Must do to Cope with the Crisis: Act Together to Maintain Confidence in the Underlying Strength of the Region's Economies -- About the Contributors.

Pacific food system outlook 2009-2010 : market volatility and the food system -- Contents -- Foreword -- Coordinators and Forecasting Panel -- Market Volatility and The Food System; A New Era of Volatility?; Roller Coaster Prices: The Upswing -- Declining Grain Stocks; Expanding Biofuel Production -- Policy Intervention -- Other Factors; Roller Coaster Prices: The Downswing -- Food System Impacts -- Policy Implications -- References -- Sponsor Profiles -- PECC Members.

MERCOSUR economic integration : lessons for ASEAN -- Contents -- Preface -- I. The Mercosur Experience -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- 1. Integration within MERCOSUR -- 2. Trade Integration -- 3. Rule of Law and Legislation -- 4. Conclusion -- II. Mercosur: The Elusive Quest for Regional Integration; Eul-Soo Pang and Laura Jarnagin -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- 1. Genesis and Evolution: An Overview -- 2. A Snapshot of MERCOSUR and ASEAN in Numbers -- 3. Defining Membership in MERCOSUR -- 4. The Structure of MERCOSUR -- 5. Structural Issues Undermining Integration -- 6. The Problems of Different Economic Systems -- 7. Trade Asymmetry as Catalyst for Disunity -- 8. State Subsidies and Special Zones of Industrial Promotion, 9. Members' Pursuit of Diverse Foreign Economic and Security Policies -- 10. Future Prospects and Lessons Learned -- About the Authors.

ASEAN community : unblocking the roadblocks -- Contents -- Introduction -- Workshop on ASEAN community: unblocking the roadblocks session I: Identifying the roadblocks to ASEAN economic integration -- Session II: Whither the ASEAN regional forum? -- Session III: Designing a blueprint for the ASEAN socio-cultural community -- Session IV: Does the ASEAN charter really matter? -- Background papers -- Towards an ASEAN economic community by 2015 -- Implementing the ASEAN economic community blueprint -- Towards an ASEAN economic community: matching the hardware with the operating system -- Whither the ASEAN regional forum? -- The ASEAN socio-cultural community -- The ASEAN charter and a legal identity for ASEAN -- The ASEAN charter: making sense out of mixed responses -- List of speakers, participants and chairmen.

This report, the first in the ASEAN Studies Centre report series, begins with a brief account of the important points raised during the discussions made at the workshop on 'The ASEAN Community: Unblocking the Roadblocks', organized by the ASEAN Studies Centre and the Regional Economic Studies Programme on 15 April 2008. The first endeavour in which the new ASEAN Studies Centre was actively involved, the closed-door workshop gathered Southeast Asian experts on ASEAN for what was essentially a brainstorming session on the nature of the ASEAN Community that the association aspires to be, segmented into its three pillars - the ASEAN Economic Community, the ASEAN Security Community, and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community. The session examined the benefits expected from regional community building for the people of Southeast Asia and the obstacles that lay on the way to its achievement. The workshop suggested certain measures for removing those obstacles. It then discussed the newly signed ASEAN Charter: the significance of its provisions, how it could help build the ASEAN Community, and how it might fall short of doing so. The workshop also heard a short briefing on the aims and functions of the ASEAN Studies Centre and proffered suggestions for it

Regional Outlook Forum 2007 : summary report -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Opening remarks -- 2. Keynote speech: religious extremism in Southeast Asia -- 3. Strategic trends in East Asia -- 4. Dynamics of regional economics -- 5. Luncheon speech: Hong Kong's hinterland — pearl river delta and beyond -- 6. The haze: economic and social ramifications -- 7. Political trends in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Myanmar -- 8. Terrorism -- 9. Concluding remarks -- Forum programme -- Speakers and panellists -- Rapporteurs of the regional outlook forum 2007: summary report.

Launched in 1992, Regional Outlook is an annual publication of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, published every January. Designed for the busy executive, professional, diplomat, journalist, or interested observer, Regional Outlook aims to provide a succinct analysis of current political and economic trends shaping the region, and the outlook for the forthcoming two years. This forward-looking book contains focused political commentaries and economic forecasts on all ten countries in Southeast Asia, as well as a select number of topical pieces of significance to the region

Countries like Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar are seeking their niches in the emerging opportunities and constraints, that characterize today's international economic and political scene. This, coupled with the dynamism of the member states of ASEAN, makes Southeast Asia a particularly promising and exciting area at a turning point in world history and human affairs.Written in a format and style that is unencumbered by lengthy analyses or commentaries, Regional Outlook provides sucinct yet substantive and easily readable overviews and insights into the current geopolitical and economic situations in the individual countries and the region as a whole, together with the likely trends over the next year or so. The review serves as a useful and handy guide to the region's aspiration and prospects each year, in addition to casting a look ahead