April 2021

Rethinking law in ASEAN’s rules-based order by Dr Tan Hsien-Li  By the end of 2021, the ASEAN Charter would have been in force for 13 years pursuant to Indonesia’s ratification in 2008. Yet what is supposed to be ASEAN’s ‘constitutional’ breakthrough has been to many, in the years since, underwhelming when compared to the initial …

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Reflecting on ASEAN Members’ Disputes at the World Trade Organisation Part 1: DS1, 1995 by Yvette Foo The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was established amid regional conflict and strained relations. ASEAN’s first five member states (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand) in 1967 agreed to join together to increase regional solidarity in …

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