Asian South East Asia Nation Or Better Known As Asean

The European Union (EU) is a political economic union of 28 members. The founders are France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Italy, Netherlands, and Germany. The Maastricht treaty established the European Union in 1993. The EU aims to ensure the free movement of people, goods, services and capital and regional development. These 28 member states have successfully integrated because of their similar cultural lifestyles.

People have created unions many times but not all of them were successful, specifically when we consider alliances among number of countries with different economics, political systems and culture. For instance, last century brought both the biggest collapse and the most promising union in the modern history. Although U.S.S.R has disappeared from geographical maps, some of its members joined another alliance. The European Union (EU) is an economic and political partnership that united 28 countries on the European part of Eurasia and represents a unique form of cooperation among members today.

The authors go on to explain the concept of international organizations, and their importance in terms of international relations, from a historical perspective. As Yi-chong and Weller

ASEAN was officially founded in August 1967 when five founding member states jointly signed the Bangkok declaration. Since then ASEAN experienced number of threats, such as security threat in cold war, economic and financial threat in 1997 East Asia Economic crisis, and now being in the security dilemma between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, prominent major powers attempting to dominate the region, despite all the threat, ASEAN set its goal to become a community in December 2015 which has lot of potential to contribute to the world stage but it also has countless number of challenges, mainly caused by its diversities, nationalism and lack of

The Organization of American States is the world’s oldest regional organization, having roots as far back as the 1826 Congress of Panama (United States Permanent Mission, n.d.). The Charter of the OAS was signed in 1948 by 21 member states and entered into force by December 1951, officially creating the Organization of American States. Today, 35 independent countries of the America have ratified the Charter and belong to the Organization, and over 68 other states, as well as the European Union, have been granted permanent observer status. The primary focus of the Organization, as stipulated in Article 1 of the Charter, is to achieve among its member states “an order of peace and justice, to promote their solidarity, to strengthen their collaboration, and to defend their sovereignty, their territorial integrity, and their independence” (Charter of the Organization of American States, 1967). While trade is not one of the Organization’s original four main pillars (those being democracy, human rights, security, and development), in recent years, more emphasis has been placed on trade.

In 20017-2008, the world suffers one of the most disastrous global economic crises in history. ASEAN, reeling from the financial crisis, suffered a little over a decade ago, did not escape this global phenomenon. Bolstered by numerous agreements such as the Vientiane Action Programme (VAP) in 2004, to further liberalize trade of goods and services, as well as the Enhanced Dispute Settlement Mechanism, which provide a mutually accepted framework among member states to maintain compliance in trade agreements, these efforts did not insulate the group from the global financial crisis. In spite of the ASEAN’s effort to ward off the effects of the crisis, ASEAN’s important economic endeavors were shortfalls due to their delayed implementation largely because of the flexibility and consensus principles.

The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is one of the three ASEAN Community Councils. It's goal is to seek regional economic integration by 2015. The areas of cooperation include

The purpose of this report is to analyze opportunity and challenges for the association of Southeast Asia Nation (ASEAN) to promote trade and economic integration in the region.

The association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was established on 8th August 1967 in Bangkok by the Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and Singapore.

The performance of East Asian nations, particularly Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and most recently, mainland China, is largely attributable to the East Asian Model, which accounts for the following notable observations: sustained economic growth at high levels for long periods, social, political and economic diversity, and economic activities that are industrialized, export-oriented and socially beneficial in nature. The East Asian Model is characterized by the following elements: investment and trade-driven growth, active governmental involvement, strong regional cooperation and economic development driven towards poverty reduction.

Despite the difference in the political system, both countries, initially, was a centralized country ruled by authoritarian government which had full control over the forest resources. Along with the unfair distributed benefit and economic development orientation, the forest resources become heavily abused by the governments and the local forest communities which drastically accelerate the rate of the deforestation (Resosudarmo and Yusuf 2006; Sunderlin and Huynh 2005). Sunderlin and Huynh (2005) claim that Vietnam held the title of the Southeast Asian country with the fastest rate of deforestation within 1976-1990 with average forest cover loss rate at 185,000 hectares per year. The turning point in Vietnam forestry, however, happened in 1992, as the forest coverage at only approximately 20-30 % of total land area, when the government imposed the National Reforestation Program followed by the Log Export Ban (1992) and Forest Land Allocation policy (1994). Thus, this event transformed the forest resources control to be a more decentralized local empowerment with significant state control (Yasmi et al. 2010). This transformation also experienced by Indonesia as the “reformation” revolution occurred in 1997, when the East Asian economic crisis wrecked Indonesian economy, which commanded decentralization in Indonesia governance. As the response to this revolution, the Basic Forestry Law (1967) replenished by the Indonesia Forestry Act in 1999

The Philippines is a Southeast Asian nation in the Western Pacific, containing more than 7,000 islands. Its capital, Manila, is renowned for its waterfront promenade and hundreds of years old Chinatown, Binondo. Intramuros, a walled city in pioneer times, is the heart of Old Manila. It 's home to the ornate seventeenth century San Agustin Church and additionally Fort Santiago, a famous fortress and military jail. It is a sovereign island nation in Southeast Asia arranged in the western Pacific Ocean. It comprises of around 7,641 islands that are sorted extensively under three principle land divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The capital city of the Philippines is Manila, and the

According to traditional trade theorists such as David Ricardo and Heckser-Ohlin, trade was only plausible and could only lead to mutual gains if countries had different technologies or differed in their resources (Emanuel Larao Pg. 2). They believed that trade could only consist of inter-industry trade, which was the exchange of goods in different product categories. Heckscher-Ohlin more specifically believed that trade could still be beneficial between two countries, if a country that was endowed with an abundance of capital; the country exported capital-intensive goods to a country that had an abundance of labor. The country with an abundance of labor would then export the labor to the country with an abundance of capital goods and import capital-intensive goods (Andrew Clark Pg.3). Two countries that adopted these characteristics are Malaysia and Singapore after 1992 when the association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed the ASEAN free trade agreement (Andrew Clark Pg.6). Singapore has been know to be the world financial center and is more capital abundant. This is demonstrated by (K/L)S > (K/L)M. Malaysia however, is more labor abundant and employs the (L/K)S < (L/K)M theory. When discussing Labor and Capital abundance the 2x2x2 model cannot be excluded. This model says that there are two countries (Singapore and Malaysia) two goods (x and y) and two factors of production (capital: K and labor: L). When (w/r)S > (w/r)M, Singapore is said to be capital abundant

In 2017, more than 9,194,057 people have visited Thailand for business or pleasure. Allowing Thailand to be the ninth country in the world for most visited by tourists. What does culture mean to you? It is defined in FM 3-24.2 as, “the set of a system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that members of a society use to cope with their world and one another” (2009). The major characteristics of culture are established with history, language, geography, religion, communication, political science, military art, and science. Additional characteristics of culture include sociology, cultural anthropology, economics, education, art, music, and entertainment. Final characteristics to include literature, food, drink, psychology, law, criminal justice, science, and technology. What is the country of Thailand and what are the areas, key infrastructure, weather, people, and civil consideration?

Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN), a 10-member organization established in August 1967, moves toward a deeper integration through creating a unified community in political, economic, and socio-cultural aspects of the region. It is a region of great diversity but most countries have achieved rapid economic development for the most of the past 25 years. Its diplomacy and cooperation are characterized by caution, pragmatism, and consensus-based decision making – the “ASEAN Way” (Ponciano Intal, et al., 2014). Taking steps to achieve their goal and embracing its motto, “One Vision. One Identity. One Community.” the organization established the ASEAN Economic Cooperation (AEC) in 2015. This aims to promote an all-inclusive cooperation across the region, gearing towards making South East Asia a globally competitive single market and production base characterized by: free flow of goods, services, investments, skills, and capitals. Moreover, it intends to form a region of equitable economic development integrated into the global economy (The ASEAN Secretariat, 200)