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- Title
United States-ASEAN Relations on ASEAN's Fortieth Anniversay: A Glass Half Full.
- Authors
Limaye, Satu P.
- Abstract
As ASEAN marks its 40th anniversary, US-ASEAN relations, for all their complexities and dissonances, also show signs of success and potential future growth. Viewed from the perspective of where US-ASEAN relations were four decades ago, signs of structural change and the prospect of a more focused-and action-oriented ASEAN organization, there remains every possibility of further filling a glass of interactions that is now only half full. The US is considering several ways in which to enhance its relations with ASEAN including through signing the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation, appointing an ambassador to ASEAN and participating in a range of regional and bilateral activities in the economic, political and military realms. It is quite likely that the US will take one or more of these measures to demonstrate its commitment to ASEAN. However, the ultimate guarantor of strengthened US-ASEAN relations will be the ability of member countries to demonstrate that they as individual countries and as ASEAN can be and wish to be partners of the US in this new century.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SOUTHEAST Asia; INTERNATIONAL obligations; UNITED States. Congress; TREATIES; REGIONAL cooperation; SOUTHEAST Asia-United States relations; FOREIGN relations of the United States, 2001-2009
- Publication
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International & Strategic Affairs, 2007, Vol 29, Issue 3, p447
- ISSN
0129-797X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1355/CS29-3D