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Regionalism Archive
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ASEAN MPs Petition for Sanctions Against Myanmar
In a petition released in the lead-up to the ASEAN Leaders’ Summit in Vietnam to Myanmar’s leaders, several ASEAN policymakers have condemned election laws unveiled by the junta which have been criticised as undermining the credibility of the vote, the first to be held in the country for two decades. The petition, endorsed by 105 [...] -
Comment: The Asia Pacific community proposal: community, directorate or network?
A Short Paper for “the Asia-Pacific Community in the 21st Century”, a consultation at Sydney, 3-5 December 2009. -
ASEAN chief presses for bloc’s centrality
JAKARTA: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must remain at the core of regional affairs despite competing visions for a new Asia-Pacific diplomatic framework, the bloc’s chief said Friday. ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan said the “plethora of regional architectures that has been proposed in recent times” suggested that the 10-nation bloc no longer had a [...] -
Political implications of the crisis for regional economies: The East Asia case
There are many political-security challenges in East Asia, such as terrorism, proliferation of WMD, transnational crime, climate change, energy security, pandemic diseases, and natural disasters. However, in the last 18 months or so a new political-security challenge has arisen that has overridden everything else, not only in the East Asian region but also globally, namely [...] -
G-20: Gulliver and Lilliputians?

BY SIMON TAY - CRISES provoke changes. The initiative to bring together the world's 20 largest economies last November was one change the global economic crisis instigated. The Group of 20 (G-20) summit meeting in September in Pittsburgh was only its third. But the G-20 has already emerged as the key grouping in the global crisis.
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