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Towards realizing an ASEAN community : brief report on the ASEAN Community Roundtable -- Contents -- Foreword -- The ASEAN community roundtable: "towards realizing an ASEAN community" session I: an overview of community building in ASEAN -- Session II: The ASEAN security community -- Session III: The ASEAN economic community -- Session IV: The ASEAN socio-cultural community -- Session V: ASEAN community: what are the institutional implications? -- Background papers -- What is a community? by Amitav Acharya -- The ASEAN community: institutional implications by Hsu Locknie -- Appendix I: Declaration of ASEAN concord II (Bali Concord II) -- Appendix II: Recommendations of the high-level task force on ASEAN economic integration (annex to Bali Concord II) -- Programme -- List of speakers, participants and chairmen.

The post-Cold War decades have witnessed a surge of regionalism in East Asia, demonstrated by the proliferation of multilateral cooperative mechanisms to deal with economic, political and security issues of common interests and concerns in the region. At the core of the network of regional institutions, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is transforming itself into a regional community in an attempt to reaffirm its relevance in the changing regional environment. The formation of the ASEAN Community compels the revision by member states of their respective national strategies in response to the requirements of - and with view to benefiting from - a higher level of intra-grouping cooperation. In this context, this thesis examines the theoretical and empirical factors underpinning Vietnam's policy towards and participation in ASEAN political and security cooperation within the framework of the evolving ASEAN Political-Security Community (one among three pillars of the ASEAN Community). The aim is to construct an intellectual foundation for Vietnam's strategy towards the ASEAN Community. It argues for Vietnam's continued and deepened engagement in the ASEAN Community on the basis of a national strategy which is informed by a synthesis of realism and constructivism and guided by the pragmatism embedded in the Vietnamese political culture. Such a policy approach is not only relevant to the existing conditions of Vietnam but also compatible with the prevailing approaches to security and community building in the region. The thesis concludes that an increasingly important role in the ASEAN Community - as an end in itself and as a means to developing more substantial and stable bilateral relationships with major powers who are participating in the ASEAN-centred cooperative frameworks - is what Vietnam has been striving for, and that it should continue to be at the core of its foreign strategy in the decades to come. Thus, this thesis contributes to Vietnam's foreign policy deliberation and consideration ...

ASEAN has produced a plan of action on ASEAN Economic Integration, which is annexed to the Bali Concord II. To kick-start the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the plan of action provides numerous policy recommendations to be implemented over the next 1 to 2 years. At the track-two level, research institutes/think-tanks such as ASEAN-ISIS, ISEAS and CSIS (Jakarta) have contributed concept papers on the AEC and the ASEAN Security Community (ASC).Against this backdrop, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) organized the ASEAN Community Roundtable in Singapore from 4 to 5 June 2004. The main theme of the Roundtable was entitled "Towards Realizing an ASEAN Community".This Roundtable provided the opportunity for scholars and experts on ASEAN to "brain-storm" in a more comprehensive and integrated manner, the different ideas and proposals underpinning the process of community building that ASEAN is embarking upon. This report reflects the conclusions that emerged from the ASEAN Community Roundtable

ASEAN community : unblocking the roadblocks -- Contents -- Introduction -- Workshop on ASEAN community: unblocking the roadblocks session I: Identifying the roadblocks to ASEAN economic integration -- Session II: Whither the ASEAN regional forum? -- Session III: Designing a blueprint for the ASEAN socio-cultural community -- Session IV: Does the ASEAN charter really matter? -- Background papers -- Towards an ASEAN economic community by 2015 -- Implementing the ASEAN economic community blueprint -- Towards an ASEAN economic community: matching the hardware with the operating system -- Whither the ASEAN regional forum? -- The ASEAN socio-cultural community -- The ASEAN charter and a legal identity for ASEAN -- The ASEAN charter: making sense out of mixed responses -- List of speakers, participants and chairmen.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I The ASEAN Community and Citizenship Education -- 1 The ASEAN Community and the Study on Citizenship Education -- 1.1 The ASEAN Community -- 1.2 The Study on Citizenship Education -- 1.2.1 Study Background and History -- 1.2.2 Contribution of Previous Studies and Regional Studies -- 1.2.3 Purpose of This Book -- 1.2.4 Structure of the Book -- 1.2.5 Research Methods -- 1.2.6 Characteristics, Significance, and Importance of This Study -- 1.2.7 Target Audience for This Book -- 1.2.8 Chapter Summaries -- 1.2.9 Study Limitations -- References -- 2 The Conceptual Framework of Citizenship Education in the ASEAN Community -- 2.1 Basic Concepts of Citizenship Education -- 2.1.1 Meanings of Citizen and Citizenship -- 2.1.2 Civic, National, and Citizenship Education -- 2.1.3 The Necessity of Citizenship Education -- 2.1.4 Global Citizenship -- 2.2 Key Concepts of Citizenship Education in the ASEAN Community: ASEAN Identity and ASEANness Education -- 2.2.1 ASEAN Identity -- 2.2.2 ASEANness Education -- 2.3 ASEANness Education Curriculum -- 2.3.1 ASEAN Studies -- 2.3.2 The ASEAN Curriculum Sourcebook -- 2.4 Surviving the 21st Century: An Educational Framework for Citizenship Education -- 2.5 Citizenship Characteristics Required in the 21st Century -- 2.5.1 Framework of Citizenship Characteristics: "Knowledge and Understanding," "Skills and Abilities," and "Values and Attitudes" -- 2.5.2 Civic Characteristics -- 2.6 Student Survey and Delphi Survey (Tables 2.2 and 2.3) -- 2.6.1 Student Survey (Table 2.2) -- 2.6.2 Delphi Survey (Table 2.3) and Results -- References -- Part II Citizenship Education in the ASEAN Countries -- 3 Citizenship Education in Brunei: Raising Awareness of ASEANness -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 New Trend of Citizenship Education: Policy, Curriculum Focusing on MIB.

'Südostasien steckt in der Krise. Ausländische Investitionen sind seit der Asienkrise 1997 zurückgegangen, SARS, die Vogelgrippe und terroristische Anschläge wie auf Bali im Oktober 2002 schädigen das Ansehen der Region zusätzlich. Um diesen Problemen zu begegnen, hat die Vereinigung südostasiatischer Staaten (ASEAN) auf ihrem Gipfel im Oktober 2003 eine Zukunftsvision entworfen. Mit dieser ASEAN Vision 2020 gilt es auch, den Abstieg der Organisation in die Bedeutungslosigkeit zu verhindern. Doch bislang tun sich die ASEAN-Staaten schwer, tatsächlich gemeinsam zu agieren und sich als Gemeinschaft zu begreifen. Vielen Staaten fehlt der politische Wille zu mehr Kooperation und Transparenz; Souveränität wird oft überbetont. Insofern ist fraglich, ob die Vision einer Sicherheitsgemeinschaft nach europäischem Vorbild zukünftig umsetzbar sein wird. Katja Freistein untersucht die Aussichten für eine Gemeinschaftsbildung anhand der drei Politikfelder Wirtschaft, Sicherheit und Identitätsbildung. In allen drei Bereichen stellt sie erhebliche Defizite und Schwierigkeiten fest, erkennt aber auch Ansätze, die als Einzelmaßnahmen zunächst vielversprechend sind. So sind die wirtschaftlichen Disparitäten zwischen den Staaten erheblich und nicht dauerhaft tragbar, das Freihandelsabkommen AFTA könnte jedoch neue wirtschaftliche Dynamik in die Region bringen. Sicherheitspolitisch bleiben große Konflikte weiterhin bestehen, neue Initiativen der Zusammenarbeit - zum Beispiel in der Terrorismusbekämpfung - könnten aber ein Schritt in Richtung multilateraler Kooperation sein. Entscheidend ist, dass sich auf Dauer ein 'Wir-Gefühl' in der ASEAN entwickelt, das die Mitglieder zur Gemeinschaft verbindet. Noch ist die Bereitschaft zu großen Veränderungen innerhalb der ASEAN schwach. Wenn diese jedoch langsam stärker wird und sich ein Reformwille einstellt, besteht die Chance, dass sich nach der Erweiterung der Gemeinschaft auf eine ASEAN-10 auch die notwendige Vertiefung des Vertrauens, der multilateralen Beziehungen, Kooperationen und institutionellen Verflechtungen entwickelt, die eine Sicherheitsgemeinschaft ausmacht.' (Autorenreferat)

This book is based on the outcomes of the International Comparative Study on Citizenship Education and Education for ASEANness in ASEAN Countries for the fiscal years 2010 to 2013. In each chapter, it analyzes the awareness of school students in a respective country, while also discussing the importance of the Delphi survey results, a major feature of this project, for educational experts on citizenship education. Examining citizenship education in ten countries, it clarifies which type of citizenship education should be completed after ten years, and what level of citizenship should be acquired in ten years. It also compares the awareness of students from these ten countries from 2010 to 2013. The book argues that citizenship education is indispensable for surviving the twenty-first century, especially in terms of promoting citizenship education in schools.

This report, the first in the ASEAN Studies Centre report series, begins with a brief account of the important points raised during the discussions made at the workshop on 'The ASEAN Community: Unblocking the Roadblocks', organized by the ASEAN Studies Centre and the Regional Economic Studies Programme on 15 April 2008. The first endeavour in which the new ASEAN Studies Centre was actively involved, the closed-door workshop gathered Southeast Asian experts on ASEAN for what was essentially a brainstorming session on the nature of the ASEAN Community that the association aspires to be, segmented into its three pillars - the ASEAN Economic Community, the ASEAN Security Community, and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community. The session examined the benefits expected from regional community building for the people of Southeast Asia and the obstacles that lay on the way to its achievement. The workshop suggested certain measures for removing those obstacles. It then discussed the newly signed ASEAN Charter: the significance of its provisions, how it could help build the ASEAN Community, and how it might fall short of doing so. The workshop also heard a short briefing on the aims and functions of the ASEAN Studies Centre and proffered suggestions for it

ASEAN Vision 2040 is a vision of an ASEAN that steps boldly forward towards the year 2040 to transform the ASEAN Community and secure its position in the region and globally. The final report of ASEAN Vision 2040 would have been impossible without the support of 60 experts and specialists in the region (see Appendix). On behalf of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), I would like to thank the experts for sharing their perspectives during the various workshops, round table discussions, and ultimately through their insightful papers.

This article seeks to discuss and analyze the fate of Rohingyas who are stateless because of being denied as citizens of Myanmar. Even Bangladesh as a neighboring country which for nearly four decades received a quarter million Rohingyas, eventually refused Rohingyas migration. Likewise, some countries in Southeast Asia such as Thailand and Malaysia also refused their migration. Security, economic, social and political issues are the reasons why these countries reject the presence of this group. ASEAN as a regional group of Southeast Asian countries should then make the issue of Rohingya a priority issue. With the declaration of the ASEAN Community, this migration of Rohingyas will ultimately become a problem, either now or in the future. Therefore this article seeks to address and answer the opportunities of ASEAN Community in facing the issue of Rohingyas migration, also its role in helping to solve the problem up to the upstream conflict in Myanmar. The analysis of this article is done by literature study method. Data obtained from books, reports and other sources related to the problem is then analyzed through analytical descriptive approach. The conclusion of this article is that ASEAN (ASEAN Community) should take action to interfere in Myanmar's internal affairs so that the issue of human rights violation can be solved completely. Suggestion is given to ASEAN to be done immediately and to make regulation in order to influence Myanmar to pay more attention to the fate of the Rohingyas. Keywords: ASEAN, ASEAN Community, Rohingya Abstrak Artikel ini berusaha membahas dan menganalisis nasib kaum Rohingya yang mengalami status stateless karena ditolak diakui sebagai warga negara Myanmar. Bahkan Bangladesh sebagai negara tetangga yang selama hampir empat dekade menerima seperempat juta penduduk Rohingya, pada akhirnya menolak migrasi warga Rohingya. Begitupun sebagian negara di Asia Tenggara seperti Thailand dan Malaysia yang juga menolak migrasi warga Rohingya. Isu keamanan, ekonomi, sosial, dan politik menjadi alasan negara-negara tersebut menolak kehadiran kelompok ini. ASEAN sebagai lembaga kumpulan negara regional Asia Tenggara kemudian sudah sepatutnya menjadikan isu Rohingya sebagai masalah prioritas. Dengan dideklarasikannya Komunitas ASEAN, tentu migrasi warga Rohingya ini pada akhirnya akan menjadi masalah, entah saat ini atau di masa yang akan datang. Oleh karena itu artikel ini berusaha membahas dan menjawab peluang Komunitas ASEAN dalam menghadapi persoalan migrasi warga Rohingya, bahkan perannya dalam membantu penyelesaian masalah hingga ke hulu konflik di Myanmar. Analisis artikel ini dilakukan dengan metode studi pustaka. Data-data yang didapat dari buku-buku dan laporan-laporan serta sumber lain yang berkaitan dengan permasalahan tersebut kemudian dianalisis dengan pendekatan deskriptif analitik. Kesimpulan dari artikel ini bahwa sudah seharusnya ASEAN (Komunitas ASEAN) melakukan tindakan yang bisa dikatakan mengintervensi persoalan internal Myanmar agar persoalan pelanggaran HAM ini dapat diatasi sepenuhnya. Saran diberikan kepada ASEAN agar secepatnya dilakukan tindakan dan menyusun regulasi untuk dapat memengaruhi Myanmar agar lebih memperhatikan nasib kaum Rohingya. Kata kunci: ASEAN, Komunitas ASEAN, Rohingya

ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) faces at least two challenges, its organizational structure and its performance. In the matter of organizational structure the members debate on the possibility to change AIPA from an assembly to be a parliament. As for the performance matter the members intend to increase its support to ASEAN in achieving ASEAN community targets. Considering Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC) and the ASEAN way, the basic principles of ASEAN, the writer suggest AIPA to maintain its current structure while increasing the performance of the members national parliament respectively