ASEAN Petroleum Security Agreement : sealed or leaking?

• Main Authors: Chang, Youngho, Koh, Collin Swee Lean
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science::Political institutions::Asia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79713; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6081
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The ASEAN Petroleum Security Agreement signed recently in Thailand marks a milestone for ensuring regional energy securiy by including a provision for voluntary oil stockpiles. However, mandatory, as opposed to voluntary, oil stockpiling could better serve the medium- and long-term energy security...