The ASEAN Studies Centre is devoted to research on issues that pertain to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
ASC's annual flagship event, the ASEAN Roundtable 2012 discussed the ASEAN Economic Community Scorecard, evaluating its current status and progress towards AEC milestones, and an assessment of policy reforms necessary to meet end goals.
ASC Head and researchers brief HRH on ASEAN developments in a roundtable discussion at ISEAS on 18 July 2011.
This year the ASEAN Roundtable of the ASEAN Studies Centre at ISEAS will focus on the ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC). The APSC, one of the three pillars of the ASEAN Community has been largely overlooked, both in the academic world and in the international media.
The ASEAN Roundtable 2013 is designed to be an informal mid-term review of the implementation of the APSC Blueprint with the aim to understand the significance of the APSC Blueprint and evaluate where the APSC is heading beyond 2015. About 20 ASEAN practitioners, diplomats, academic experts, and journalists have been invited to present papers and discuss pertinent issues at the ASEAN Roundtable 2013.
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Invitation letter (by Invitation Only)
"The twelve economies which have joined TPP Agreement constitute 38 per cent of world GDP, 26 per cent of world trade and 11 per cent of world population in 2012. The absence of China in the TPP negotiations has led to speculation that the TPP is an economic tool for the U.S. to contain China's rise in East Asia".
The ASC's Lead Researcher for Economic Affairs, Sanchita Basu Das evaluates that the evolution of TPP does not indicate any such intention and that China and the current TPP members have strong trade linkages in ISEAS Perspective, first published on 17th May 2013.
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"ASEAN and six other nations are launching the RCEP negotiations in Brunei in early May 2013, with the likelihood of completion by the end of 2015..... if successfully negotiated, is likely to generate a GDP of US$26.2 trillion (32 per cent of the world), effecting about 3.5 billion people (48 per cent of the world population)...further entrench ASEAN Centrality and demonstrate ASEAN’s capability to bring together its own ten members and external partners for economic growth, development and harmonisation"
The ASC's Lead Researcher for Economic Affairs, Sanchita Basu Das talks about moving beyond the ASEAN +1 FTAs through the ongoing RCEP negotiations and its significance for maintaining ASEAN Centrality in ISEAS Perspective, first published on 10th May 2013.
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"ASEAN and APEC have been active in promoting economic and developmental cooperation in Southeast Asia and the wider Pacific region ........ cooperation between them is expected to increase in the near future."
In the final of a three-part series for ISEAS Perspective, first published on 8 May 2013, the ASC's Lead Researcher for Economic Affairs, Sanchita Basu Das and ASC Research Assistants Catherine Rose James and Pham Thi Phuong Thao, identify areas of mutual interest and collaboration between APEC and ASEAN, particularly around connectivity issues.
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