Enhancing Economic Cooperation: A Regional Arbitration Centre for ASEAN?

• Main Author: KOH, Pearlie
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2000
• Subjects: Asian Studies; International Trade Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/856; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/1855/viewcontent/Enhancing_Economic_Coop_Asean_IntlCompLQ_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Economic co-operation within ASEAN can be said to have seriously begun only at the beginning of the nineties. Prior to that, it was well known that, ASEAN as a co-operative grouping, had existed mainly with a political and strategic focus. It is with this focus that ASEAN managed to establish and maintain cohesiveness through the years despite the shaky beginnings of what has been described as a 'brittle alliance' borne of a common fear of communism. And it is with this focus that ASEAN, as a regional grouping, has generally been hailed as a success.