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Regionalism In ASEAN

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On 8 August 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN) came into existence when the foreign ministers of Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, and the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, affixed their names to the Bangkok Declaration . The stated goals of the new organization were deliberately broad and somewhat vague: to accelerate the economic growth, social progress and cultural development of Southeast Asia and promote regional security: apart from the stated goal above, the five countries declared their determination to ensure their stability and security from external interference and affirmed that foreign military bases in Southeast Asia were temporary. Southeast Asia's International relations during the 1970s and 1980s would be marked by a dynamic involving the competing forces of regional conflict and cooperation. An important factor shaping this dynamic was the establishment of the ASEAN.
During this new period, regionalism would have a paradoxical effect on Southeast Asia's unity and identity. On the one hand, it brought together to an unprecedented degree the non-communist Southeast Asian states under a political and security framework. On the other hand, regionalism reflected, and contributed to , the ideological polarization of Southeast Asia. …show more content…

ASEAN members have subsequently claimed that its founders had actually envisaged a regional grouping of ten countries ( Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam). ASEAN's founding statement, the Bangkok Declaration of 1967, left membership in the organization open to "all States in the South-East Asian region subscribing to the aims, principles, and purposes of ASEAN". But it did not provide a definite sense of where to draw boundaries of the region

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