[DOWNLOAD] "Forging an ASEAN Identity: The Challenge to Construct a Shared Destiny." by Contemporary Southeast Asia * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Forging an ASEAN Identity: The Challenge to Construct a Shared Destiny.
- Author : Contemporary Southeast Asia
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 271 KB
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Introduction: An Evolving Regional Identity In the last two decades, the world has seen the deepening of regional integration agreements among nations. The European Union, the most successful case of regional integration, has succeeded in creating a common market and laying down a foundation for the emergence of the Economic and Monetary Union with the installation of the euro as a common currency. A similar, perhaps less ambitious, type of regional integration occurred in the Americas with the signing of the NAFTA and Mercosur agreements. In Southeast Asia, the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has formulated a planned integration among its ten member nations. ASEAN drew up its vision of its future in the document ASEAN Vision 2020 (1) at its annual summit in December 1997 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This document outlines a number of objectives defining regional development. One of those directives was defined: "We envision the entire Southeast Asia to be, by 2020, an ASEAN community conscious of its ties of history, aware of its cultural heritage and bound by a common regional identity."