On 17 and 18 January 2011, CIL organised a workshop on ‘International Maritime Crimes: Legal Issues and Prospects for Co-operation in ASEAN‘.The objective of the workshop was to examine whether ASEAN States can better combat serious maritime crimes (such as piracy, ship hijacking, and hostage-taking of crew), by ratifying and effectively implementing various relevant global …
ASEAN economic cooperation and integration have come a long way since the organisation’s early days, when cooperation was more political and diplomatic than economic in nature. ASEAN now constitutes the most ambitious organisation of regional cooperation and integration in the developing world. This book investigates the economics of various ASEAN and ASEAN-centric economic integration initiatives, …
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ASEAN as an actor in International Fora addresses a blind spot in ASEAN research and in comparative regionalism studies by assessing why, how, when and to what extent ASEAN member governments achieve a collective presence in global fora. Written for academic researchers and practitioners working in areas such as international relations, political science and international …
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ASEAN is coming of age as an international actor and international treaty-maker. To date, more than two hundred external agreements and other instruments have been concluded in the name of ASEAN. This book provides the first systematic account of the legal framework governing ASEAN’s burgeoning external relations practice. It focuses in depth on ASEAN’s wide-ranging …
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From Treaty-Making to Treaty-Breaking is the first high-level analysis of ASEAN’s external trade agreements with non-ASEAN states. It clearly sets out the intended, and unintended, consequences of ASEAN’s prevailing method of treaty making, with suggested guidelines for the future. The book begins by asking whether ASEAN trade agreements follow worldwide trends in the substantive content …
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