In 2009, a major research project on ASEAN legal integration, entitled Integration through Law: The ASEAN Way in a Comparative Context – The Role of Law and Rule of Law in Asian Legal Integration was undertaken at the Centre for International Law of the National University of Singapore. One of the key objectives of this …
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CIL and the ASEAN Secretariat, with the support of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, held a workshop on ‘Treaty Management in International Organisations: Lessons Learnt and ASEAN Practice’ on 2 December 2016 in Jakarta at the ASEC premises. The workshop focused on the treaty management practices of ASEAN, especially the newly established …
This pioneering book addresses an important gap in the literature by comparing the role of the public bureaucracies in policy implementation in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. It highlights the importance of the policy context, especially the commitment of the government in allocating the necessary resources and the support of the implementers, as …
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has experienced rapid economic growth for many years. Although the population of ASEAN is larger than the EU-28, the emerging ASEAN market, called the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), is still little understood by policy makers in many parts of the world, by business professionals and students, as well …
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While the environmental performance of most ASEAN member states is above the world average, ASEAN nations will continue to face growing environmental challenges due to pressures exerted on them such as population growth, urbanisation and industrialisation. The authors of this book look at how the member states of ASEAN employ law as a means of …
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Starting with a typology of ASEAN external agreements, the authors go on to provide an original reading of plurilateral agreements as ‘joint’ agreements. The book then offers both a clarification of the effects—direct or indirect—of external agreements within the legal orders of ASEAN Member States, and an explanation of the effects of external agreements within …
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Comparative Regional Integration: Governance and Legal Models is a groundbreaking comparative study on regional or supranational integration through international and regional organisations. It provides the first comprehensive and empirically based analysis of governance systems by drawing on an original sample of 87 regional and international organisations. The authors explain how and why different organisations select …
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This document forms part of the ‘Compilation of Constitutional and Legislative Provisions on Treaty Practice of Selected States and International Organisations’, which contains the most important constitutional, legislative and other official provisions relevant to treaty practice of a selection of states and international organisations. The compilation was produced by the British Institute of International and …
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This document forms part of the ‘Compilation of Constitutional and Legislative Provisions on Treaty Practice of Selected States and International Organisations’, which contains the most important constitutional, legislative and other official provisions relevant to treaty practice of a selection of states and international organisations. The compilation was produced by the British Institute of International and …
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Forty years after the Bangkok Declaration, which established the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a new document was drafted as a result of ‘bold and visionary recommendations’ of an ASEAN Committee of Eminent Persons. The ASEAN Charter, which came into force in 2008, provides ASEAN’s legal status and institutional framework. In effect, it is …
