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In November 2008, the Regional Economic Studies Programme of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) and the Singapore office of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada organised a forum on "Regional Economic Integration - ASEAN and Canadian Perspectives". The forum concluded that fundamentally the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) were two different kinds of agreements. First, while NAFTA focused entirely on trade

Know Your ASEAN sets down, in clear and simple language, the basic facts about the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. It does so in the form of 40 questions and their answers. This is the second edition of the booklet that was among the contributions of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies to the observance of the 40th anniversary of ASEAN's founding on 8 August 1967.The booklet provides facts on ASEAN's establishment, membership, financing and decision-making. It recalls the associ

On 28 July 2008, the ASEAN Studies Centre and the Regional Economic Studies Programme, both of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung organized a roundtable on "The ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint". The brainstorming session gathered Southeast Asian experts from the region to discuss the AEC Blueprint, which ASEAN's leaders had adopted at their summit meeting in November 2007, and the prospects of any obstacles to its implementation by the target year, 2

We in the ASEAN Studies Centre at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore have compiled in this volume a lead article, five commentaries on it, and a previously published article about the current global financial crisis, its implications for ASEAN, and what ASEAN can do about it. We thus hope to contribute to the analysis of the crisis, to the mitigation of its impact, and to the search for an eventual solution. Such a solution necessarily entails transboundary cooperation, glo

In November 2008, Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS), Academia Sinica, Taiwan, the ASEAN Studies Centre (ASC), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, and the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER) organized a symposium in Taipei on ASEAN-Taiwan economic relations. The symposium concluded that while a free trade agreement between Taiwan and ASEAN was not, for political reasons, possible at the moment, Taiwan businesses could take part in the ASEAN regional int

In January 1992, the leaders of ASEAN gathered for their fourth summit meeting to sign an agreement called the Common Effective Preferential Tariff for the creation of the ASEAN Free Trade Area. The significance of this step arose notably from the fact that it formally marked the shift of the ASEAN economic enterprise from one of economic cooperation to one towards economic integration. Among the spurs that goaded ASEAN to undertake the shift was the rise of economic regionalism in several

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Region -- Southeast Asia: A Year When High Ambition Was Challenged / Crone, Donald -- ASEAN Economic Co-operation: Adjusting to the Crisis / Setboonsarng, Suthad -- Regionalism In East And Southeast Asia: Two Views -- ASEAN: An Image Problem / Sheridan, Greg -- East Asian Regionalism: So Close and Yet So Far / Chongkittavorn, Kavi -- Brunei Darussalam -- Brunei Darussalam: Developing Within Its Own Paradigm / Duraman, Ismail / Hj Hashim, Abdul Amin -- Cambodia -- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Cambodia and the Elusive Quest for Peace / Um, Khatharya -- Hun Sen's Pre-Emptive Coup: Causes and Consequences / Peou, Sorpong -- Indonesia -- Indonesia: A Year of Politics and Sadness / Sukma, Rizal -- Indonesia: Towards Transition / Lowry, Bob -- Laos -- Laos: No Safe Haven from the Regional Tumult / Freeman, Nick J. -- Malaysia -- Malaysia: A Year of Introspection / Kurus, Bilson -- Myanmar -- Myanmar: Regional Relationships and Internal Concerns / Steinberg, David I. -- The Philippines -- Between Populism and Reform: Facing the Test of May 1998 / Magna, Alexander R. -- Security Challenges of the Philippine Archipelago / Pablo-Baviera, Aileen San -- Singapore -- Entrenching a City-State's Dominant Party System / Ganesan, N. -- Towards a Singaporean Civil Society / Tay, Simon S. C. -- Thailand -- Thailand: Constitutional Reform Amidst Economic Crisis / Jumbala, Prudhisan -- Thai Foreign Policy: Seeking Influence / Funston, John -- Vietnam -- Vietnam's One-Party Rule and Socialist Democracy? / Vasavakul, Thaveeporn -- Striving Towards Doi Moi 11 / Truong, David H.D.

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

Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), published by the United Nations in 1948, states that 'everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance'. Malaysia recently won its bid to sit on the United Nations Human Rights Council from 2022 to 2024. However, while the country's constitution is progressive in underlining the rights of religious minorities, this is severely lacking in practice as it exercises heavy regulation on religion, combined with restrictions on the practices of certain faiths. Based on interviews and focus group discussions conducted in Malaysia, this paper uncovers the challenges faced by religious minorities in the country.

Like many countries, Indonesia's armed forces (TNI) have been engaging in health security activities since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. The pandemic has made TNI popular in society owing to its visible dedication to crisis response at the grassroots level. It is important to clarify how this became possible and the impact it has had from the perspective of civil-military relations. This text examines this topic.