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SUMMARY:ASEAN Decision-Making and Policy Change in Southeast Asia
LOCATION:Room 1.102
DESCRIPTION:Long criticized as a talk shop, ASEAN has made significant prog
 ress both in the regularization of its decision-making procedures as well a
 s its reach into various policy areas. Regional-level decision making, part
 icularly since the establishment of the ASEAN charter, is increasingly havi
 ng an effect on ASEAN’s member states and their national policies. Progress
  has been made in all of ASEAN’s three pillars, although to varying degrees
 . The ASEAN Economic Community has been the policy area with the most polit
 ical traction, as can be seen in several areas such as competition policy a
 nd the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA). Progress within the politica
 l-security and socio-cultural pillars of the organization has been more mod
 est, but observation suggests an increasing regionalization of decisionmaki
 ng in these areas as well. Incoherence remains on some contentious issues, 
 most visible in the Philippine turnaround on the South China Sea in 2017 an
 d continued regional inactivity in the Rohingya humanitarian crisis. \n\nTh
 e increased policy importance of the regional level can at least partly be 
 tied to changing norms and mechanisms in regional decision-making. Beyond t
 he much-noted ASEAN Way and its emphasis on consensus and non-intervention,
  ASEAN utilizes a variety of informal and semi-formal decision-making mecha
 nisms to address emerging regional issues. One such example is the chairman
 ship of the organization, which has a profound effect on ASEAN’s agenda. An
 other one is the ASEAN sectoral bodies, which partly provide the agenda for
  the ministerial meetings and summits from the bottom up. Civil society inc
 reasingly plays a role at different stages, providing inputs and monitoring
  outcomes of regional negotiations and activities. External partners also a
 ffect ASEAN’s policies to varying degrees, due to the organization’s strong
  commitment to external economic and political relations.
URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/asean-decision-making-and-policy-change-in-southeast-asia
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