សាកលវិទ្យាល័យបញ្ញា សាស្ត្រកម្ពជា

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Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia

Class : ASEAN
Room : Prasat Phnom Chiso
Professor : Yeang Sokhom
Group : 7
Name : Sok hengpechmony Kim Kolthida
Phat Phannith Haw Phanna
Kre Then Chen Pisey
Content
I. Introduction
II. ASEAN Enters into its Fifth Decade

III. ASEAN’s Organizational Evolution

IV. ASEAN’s External Relations

V. Sub-regional Multilateral Frameworks
VI. Conclusion
Introduction

• ASEAN
• The concept of Regionalism in Southeast Asia
 ASEAN Enters into its Fifth Decade

• ASEAN celebrated the fortieth anniversary of its founding “Bangkok Declaration "in 2007

• ASEAN has become a fixture in the international relations of the region.

• ASEAN’s regionalism is a loose regionalism in which there is no regional organizational

authority over the member state’s policies or behavior.

• ASEAN has been an important foreign policy tool for Indonesia.

 ASEAN Enters into its Fifth Decade

• From Five to Ten: Is More Better?

• Member expansion

• The original five countries

• Brunei , Vietnam , Laos , Cambodia , Myanmar

• Myanmar : accepted as full member in 1997

• Cambodia : admitted to membership in 1999

ASEAN’s Organizational Evolution
 The Dialogue Partners
 At the 1977 summit, the five ASEAN heads of government met with the prime ministers of Australia, Japan, and New

Zealand.
 ASEAN foreign minister met in a Post-Ministerial Conference (PMC) with their counterparts from Canada, the EU, and
the United States, in addition to Australia, Japan, and New Zealand as official dialogue partners.”
 Since then four other dialogue partners have joined: the Republic of Korea in 1991, and in 1996, China, India, and
Russia
 The ASEAN committees, so-called outposts of ASEAN, are made up of the accredited ASEAN ambassadors to the
particular country.
 Then New Zealand and Australia held a commemorative summit with ASEAN in 2004.
 The EU and ASEAN held a commemorative summit in 2007.
 An ASEAN–Russia summit was held in 2005. Of the dialogue partners, only Canada and the United States have not had
an official summit meeting with the ASEAN heads government
 The Dialogue Partners

• A summit meeting hosted by the United States celebrating thirty years of the U.S.–ASEAN dialogue was

scheduled for 2007 but was cancelled.

• The reason given was the president’s preoccupation with Middle East issues. An effort to reschedule it in

2008 failed after the September 2007 Myanmar assault Buddhist monks and the U.S. refusal to sit down
with the junta’s prime minister
 ASEAN + 3 (APT)

• Since 1997, three of the dialogue partners—China, the Republic of Korea ,and Japan—have developed a special

relationship with ASEAN, formalized as the ASEAN + 3 grouping.

• The external stimulus was the financial crisis of1997 and the effort to find a regional mechanism to deal with it.

• The EAVG’s report was presented to an East Asia Study Group (EASG) set up in November 2000 made up of senior

officials.

• An APT summit meeting in addition to the ASEAN + 1 summits with China, South Korea, and Japan has become part of

the annual ASEAN summit.

• ASEAN’s strategy in the APT is to enhance Southeast Asia’s significance as a grouping to the Northeast Asian powers.

• ASEAN and APEC, “there is good reason to believe that the APT will emerge as the key organization in East Asia
 The East Asia Summit

• East Asia Summit (EAS) is the idea for the EAS was mooted by Malaysia’s Prime Minister Abdullah as a first

step toward the EAVG’s goal of an East Asia Community.

• It differed from the ASEAN + 3 in that the ten ASEAN nations are associated as East Asian individual states,

not as ASEAN.
• The United States was excluded since it had not acceded to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast

Asia.
• China’s interest in the EAS format waned as the membership expanded, since its role would be diluted.

• As it stands after the first three EAS gatherings, the summit presents one more opportunity for dialogue at a

fairly high level of generalization

 ASEAN and Europe

• ASEAN has transformed its dialogue process with Europe into a formal organizational relationship

although not as penetrating or elaborate as the ASEAN + 3

• The twenty-seven-nation EU is ASEAN’s second largest export market and its third largest trading

partner.
ASEAN’s External Relations (CONT’)

ASEAN & EU

 EU (27 nation of EU) is the second largest export market of ASEAN and the 3rd largest partnership.

 ASEAN had publish a consultative with EU in addition to PMC dialogues.

 Publishing ASEAN EU Ministerial Meeting (AEMM) and the every annual 2 of meeting.

 The publishing of ASIA-Meeting (ASEM):

SEAN’s External Relations (CONT’)

Transregional Links

 The publishing of The Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD).

 The publishing of Bay of Bengal imitative of Multi-Sectoral economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) found by

India in 1997.

 The publishing of Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC) has 6 members such as India, Thai, Lao, Myanmar,

Cambodia and Vietnam found in 2000.

ASEAN’s External Relations (CONT’)

 The publishing of Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) found by India in

1997.

 The Publishing of Southwest Pacific Dialogue is a formal dialogue published in 2002.

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SUB-REGIONAL MULTILATERAL FRAMEWORKS

The Mini-ASEANs

In the 1990s, four such sub regional growth zone had officially been endorsed by ASEAN

-The Indonesia -Singapore –Malaysia growth Triangle (IMS-GT) or alternatively SIJORI) The Indonesia

–Malaysia Thailand Growth Triangle (IMS-GT) , The Brunie-indonesia –Malaysia –Philippines East

ASEAN Growth area (BIMP-EAGA); and the Greater Mekong Sub regional (GMS) Growth Zone or

“growth hexagon.
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The IMS-GT Or SIJORI

• The Indonesia –Malaysia –Singapore growth zone is the only southeast Asian sub regional growth zone

that begins to approximate the theoretical model. Actually, the politics endorsement of the IMS-GT in

the MOU between the three Countries formalized at a government level the existing pattern of

economic relation.
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IMT-GT

• In the Indonesia –Malaysia Thailand GT , the political structure was erected without reference the

naturalness of economics forces in what appears to be the mistaken belief that politics leaders. The

Politically modeled on the IMS-GT, The IMS_GT had few complementarities and no Singapore like

financial and transportation hub.

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BIMP-EAGA

• The Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia- Philippines east Asian growth area was officially launched in March

1994 at a ministerial meeting in Davao City, it was promoter by President Fidel Ramos. The BIMP-

EAGA, has been described as an association of neglected region with the exception of Brunei.

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