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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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 …
Rules of Origin in ASEAN is the first in-depth exploration of the complex rules of origin in ASEAN’s trade agreements. Written by two leading practitioners, the book explains with clarity the existing ASEAN Rules of Origin (RoO) practices and their administration regimes in a comparative context and provide a recommendation for reform. The ASEAN RoOs …
In 1986, Lewis M Alexander, a world-renowned marine geographer, prepared for the US Department of Defense a report, ‘Navigational Restrictions within the New LOS Context: Geographical Implications for the United States’. Edited by J Ashley Roach, the reformatted report is presented in five sections and includes 20 maps, illustrating the world’s international straits and major …
