ASEAN: building an Economic Community
At a Glance
03-12-2014
In 2007 the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) decided to move towards closer integration by establishing an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015 as one of its three pillars (the other two being the Political-Security and Socio-Cultural Communities). What will this mean and to what extent will the AEC resemble the EU's Single Market?
At a Glance
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- ASEAN
- ASEAN countries
- common market
- cooperation policy
- economic conditions
- economic cooperation
- economic development
- economic geography
- economic integration
- economic policy
- economic structure
- ECONOMICS
- EU relations
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- extra-European organisations
- free-trade area
- GEOGRAPHY
- INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- international trade
- political cooperation
- tariff policy
- TRADE
- trade cooperation
- trade policy
- trade policy
- trade relations