Cebu Declaration on the Acceleration of the Establishment of an ASEAN Community by 2015<\/u><\/a>. The Asian Charter, which became effective in 2008 is a legally binding agreement among the ASEAN members which summarizes the rules and values of the community, set targets, and provides for accountability and compliance<\/p>\nPost 2:<\/p>\n
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was established in 1967 as an intergovernmental organization with 10 Southeast Asian countries as members. During ASEAN\u2019s second decade it helped resolve the conflict of Indochina and shortly after Burma-Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam were admitted into the circle. ASEAN was then confronted with obstacles and experienced political, economic and financial crisis. Around the same era the region experienced religious and ethnic tensions along with border disputes. ASEAN has definitely experienced its rocky road of problems but was able to overcome these peacefully (Jones and Smith 2007, 148).<\/p>\n
After seeing the success of ASEAN in Southeast Asian countries there was an even further pursue for regional integration by expanding into East Asia. This idea came to extend the ASEAN reach and share the same norms and values in Southeast Asia as they were successful there. I would have to say I noticed the liberalism theory approach since it relied more on cooperation among these states to maintain a stable region. ASEAN focuses on promoting Pan-Asianism and this was the perfect opportunity to use its idea and implement in the Southeast Asia region. As we learned before about Liberalism the focus is on using IOs such as ASEAN for a group of states to cooperate with each other. Using this tactic of cooperation among states and specifically Southeast Asian would help reduce conflict. These states would interact economically, financially and also through culture. Security is also a factor and cooperation between these states is essential to guarantee lasting peace (Jones and Smith 2007, 149).<\/p>\n
I see ASEAN as an IO continuing to expand further and this is good for these states to all continue growing economically while also reducing tensions or conflicts among each other. Jones stated \u201cASEAN was originally founded to establish the conditions of stability among heterogeneous grouping of weak postcolonial states in Southeast Asia, and subsequent attempts to extend its associative modality beyond this limited goal leads only to organizational ambiguity and academic incoherence\u201d (Jones and Smith 2007, 149). This in short explains how ASEAN was created in an effort to keep the peace in the region and has continued to grow in members from when it was first created.<\/p>\n
Recently though Southeast Asia has confronted a new problem and this is the growing threat of terrorism and some of these states have had a difficult time controlling militants within their borders. Three of these member states facing the highest threat level of terrorism are the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. The most affected to date would have to be the Philippines with Abu Sayyaf a militant group that recently pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. There was a siege in Mindanao not too long ago where the Islamic State caused a state of panic by seizing Marawi city and engaging in a 5 month armed conflict. The incident even caused President Duterte of the Philippines to declare martial law until the siege was finally lifted and residents were able to return home to a destroyed city. This can be very concerning due to the fact that Mindanao is the Philippines 2nd largest island in the country. The Philippines being a member of ASEAN threatens the security of its neighbors due to its insurgency problem and close proximity to Indonesia and Malaysia.<\/p>\n
Post 3 is a response to this question:<\/p>\n
By the way, what is the difference between ASEAN and NATO? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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