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Since its founding in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has been an increasingly large part of the life of Southeast Asia, although most people in the region know very little about it. ASEAN has helped bring peace and stability to the region. It has successfully engaged the world's major powers, in East Asia and beyond. ASEAN has taken steps to integrate the regional economy as an important means of cooperatively improving the region's competitiveness, attracting investments, generating jobs, raising incomes, and lowering costs and prices. ASEAN has also formed networks for dealing with regional problems like communicable diseases, environmental degradation, and transnational crime. An essential part of the Southeast Asia Background Series, this book seeks to shed some light on what ASEAN is all about

The nineties of the last century began as an agreeable time for the three Indochina states,
at least as far as foreign policy and the options for joining subregional and regional FTAs
were concerned. After China had succeeded in getting leverage on the ASEAN however,
they became more and more squeezed into the Chinese corner, particularly after having
signed the China-ASEAN FTA (CAFTA) Agreement with Beijing in November 2002.
Soon afterwards not only the volume of trade, but also the political two-way-relationship
between ASEAN and China began to increase in a much faster pace than those
between ASEAN and Japan or South Korea, to say nothing of other competitors like India,
Australia, New Zealand or Russia. Multilateral approaches became, in other words, more
and more overshadowed by bilateral FTAs and in-group-tendencies. This development
was detested not only by outside-countries like Japan, South Korea or India, but even by
ASEAN-insiders like Indonesia and Vietnam.
The growing uneasiness with China's way of selfishly embracing ASEAN resulted in
the first East Asian Summit (EAS), held in Kuala Lumpur in December 2005, which was
enforced by several governments to be dissatisfied with Chinas's unilaterialism, and which
reopened the discussion on the issue of multilateralisation and on extending the number of
participants to a ASEAN+6- (including China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, New
Zealand) or even to a ASEAN+7-Community (inclusive Russia). Regarding the future, the
participants decided that the EAS should serve as a platform for dialogue on substituting
the notorious CAFTA by EAFTA (East Asian FTA) and on laying foundations even for
an East Asian Community, which of course is still very far away and embryonic, at least
for the time beeing.

Die Arbeit "Die ASEAN im Wandel. Auswirkungen nationalstaatlicher Transformation auf die Institutionen der ASEAN" untersucht den institutionellen Wandel der ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) und erklärt ihn anhand der nationalstaatlichen Transformationsprozessen in Südostasien. Der Untersuchungsrahmen folgt dem institutionellen Konstruktivismus und berücksichtigt einerseits die Differenzierung von formellen und informellen Institutionen und andererseits die gegenseitige Beeinflussung von Institutionen und Akteuren. Anschließend widmet sich das dritte Kapitel der abhängigen Variablen der Untersuchung, der historischen Darstellung der institutionellen Entwicklung der ASEAN, sowie mit besonderem Augenmerk dem Wandel der ASEAN nach 2004. Nachdem Kapitel 4 die unabhängige Variable der Untersuchung, die Transformation der Nationalstaaten der Region, analysiert, dient Kapitel 5 der Darstellung des Zusammenhangs zwischen der abhängigen und der unabhängigen Variable. Abschließend werden einerseits Rückschlüsse für die zukünftige Entwicklung der ASEAN und andererseits für die Untersuchung von institutionellem Wandel gezogen.

Higher education has an important role in the region's economic growth, with talents and ideas developing in the process. ASEAN University Network (AUN) is the institution that facilitates cooperation among ASEAN universities and beyond. This research attempts to describe the role of AUN in enhancing regional integration in the higher education sector in ASEAN. This research uses qualitative method to get depth information and the bigger picture in the governance of AUN's role and mechanism in regional integration of higher education system. The results of this research showed that AUN helped enhancing regional cooperation.