Premises, perils, and promises of ASEAN integration

• Main Author: San Juan, David Michael M.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: Southeast Asia—Economic integration; Hegemony > Southeast Asia; Neoliberalism > Southeast Asia; Economic development > Southeast Asia; Political Science; Regional Economics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/1952
• Institution: De La Salle University

This article is aimed at analyzing the premises, perils, and promises of ASEAN integration. Beyond examining the region’s situation, this article will also draw lessons from the European Union and various incipient Latin American integration projects. Specifically, this article will address the following questions: (a) How does the ASEAN’s founding myth affect the ASEAN integration project’s general direction? (b) What is wrong with ASEAN’s current neoliberal framework? (c) What country will be the likely hegemon of the ASEAN economic and socio-cultural community? (d) Is a solidarity-based, people-centered, grassroots-driven, and non-neoliberal model for ASEAN integration possible and sustainable? (e) What lessons can be drawn from the European and Latin American integration schemes? © 2018 SAGE Publications.