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- Title: Introduction: Asean--Facing the Fifth Decade.
- Author : Contemporary Southeast Asia
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 247 KB
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At its formation forty years ago on 8 August 1967, ASEAN (created by a joint political declaration rather than a formal charter) was an association of just five Southeast Asian nations in a Southeast Asia divided by the Cold War. In the immediate aftermath of konfrontasi, Singapore's separation from Malaysia and the Philippines' claim to Sabah, the top intra-mural concern of the time was rebuilding mutual confidence. It took nine years before ASEAN was able to convene its first summit-level meeting at which a blueprint for regional cooperation, the Bali Concord, was unveiled and the norms of neighbourly behaviour, written into the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC) adopted. Since 1987, when the treaty was opened to accession by extra-regional states, there have been twelve non-ASEAN signatories including all the external partners in the East Asia Summit process. A second summit in Kuala Lumpur the following year marked the end of ASEAN's first decade. The third summit was stalled by the negative vibes in bilateral relations between Malaysia and the Philippines (the expected host by alphabetical rotation) on account of the lingering problems caused by the latter's claim to the Malaysian state of Sabah. Meanwhile in 1984 a newly independent Brunei became ASEAN's sixth member. The third summit was eventually held in Manila in ASEAN's 20th year (1987) in an atmosphere of anxiety following the overthrow of the Marcos regime by a "people's power revolution".