IS AN ASEAN IDENTITY POSSIBLE?

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WILLIAM J JONES

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This paper will try and provide conceptual ideas as to how ASEAN as a strictly intergovernmental organization can attempt to move forward and evolve into a dynamic organization that is capable of meeting immense challenges in its future dealings with the greater global world at large. The overriding concept will be the undisputed fact that ASEAN must proceed at an exceedingly swift fashion in its integration and identity formation of itself so as to take advantage of the time it has left before its regional hegemons China and India emerge to be global superpowers and find its niche so as to preclude being taken advantage of on an individual nation state basis.

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