To give you an overall view of what ASEAN aims to achieve and how it positions itself in the global community, allow me to refer to the grand vision of ASEAN called ASEAN 2020. The ASEAN Heads of States and Government in Kuala Lumpur on 15 December 1997 have promulgated the ASEAN Vision 2020 charting [...]
Two years after the start of the financial and economic crisis, do you think the countries of the region are about to “see the end of the tunnel”? What is your assessment of the current Political and economic situation of the ASEAN member countries? In the latter half of July, the ASEAN member-countries had their [...]
World Affairs (WA): How and in what circumstances was ASEAN established? What, in your view, were the principal economic and political factors that led the five Southeast Asian nations to join hands in 1967? Rodolfo C Severino (RCS): ASEAN was established in 1967 by five countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore. Except for [...]