ASEAN: building a Political-Security Community
At a Glance
02-12-2014
Since its inception in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been a key foreign policy and security player in the region. Like the EU, it has helped to bring stability to a formerly turbulent region. In an effort to put cooperation on a more structured basis, ASEAN's 2007 Charter establishes a Political-Security Community as one of the organisation's three pillars (the other two being the Economic and Socio-Cultural Communities).
At a Glance
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- ASEAN
- ASEAN countries
- Asia and Oceania
- China
- cooperation policy
- creation of nuclear-free zones
- economic geography
- EU relations
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- extra-European organisations
- foreign policy
- GEOGRAPHY
- human rights
- INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- international security
- LAW
- member country
- political cooperation
- regional security
- rights and freedoms