Asia Southeast Asian Nations ( Asean )

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is an organization that was established in the year 1989. The cooperation creates tangible effects and benefits for the people within the Asia-Pacific region through their projects. There are currently 21 members (can also be referred to as “economies”) in the organization. In a year, it is estimated that the APEC members propose about 100 projects. These projects usually focus in sharing knowledge and skills to other people. For example, promoting and accelerating regional economic integration. Regional integration is a procedure which

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a forum for 21 Pacific Rim economies. APEC members are described as ‘economies’ because the APEC cooperative process is predominantly concerned with trade and economic issues, with members engaging with one another as economic entities. APEC promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region. It was established in 1989 in response to the growing interdependence of Asia-Pacific economies and the advent of regional trade blocs in other parts of the world; to fears that highly industrialised Japan (a member of G8) would come to dominate economic activity in the Asia-Pacific region; and to establish new markets for agricultural products and raw materials beyond Europe.(Andrew Elek)

Chapter six introduces the music of Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is composed of eleven countries: Myanmar, Singapore, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines, and Timor-Leste. The cultures are shaped by weather patterns, which generally stay the same year-round. As many as 200 ethnics group can be found throughout Southeast Asia and so, many different types of music can be found. The area is known for using bamboo and bronze to make instruments. Among the island nations, Indonesia is consist of over 13,000 islands making it the largest archipelago in the world.

East Asia is a diverse region housing some of the largest nations in the world as well as some of the smallest. Remarkably, over the past 20 years, the region of East Asia has experienced overwhelming success and growth rates. East Asia currently ranks as one of the top regions in the world in terms of economic success and growth. According to Thomas Leipziger, (Leipziger, 3)

China, South Korea and Japan are three countries which represent successful policies in reversing their economy from central to advanced in a short period of time. These countries are smaller pieces of a puzzle and they compete with the rest of Asia by forming a strong picture. After participating in wars like WWII and the Korean War, China, South Korea, and Japan make a very powerful triangular force that stands for change and the development of a new policy in economy, society and governments. The transformation of these countries to the open world context has several reasons that consist to: transform the financial system to an open economy, shut down a very large number of loss making state enterprises, and strengthen the weak position of government.

Recent economy data indicates that there is a widespread growth in the global economy since 2016 and economic development in the Asia-Pacific region remains strong and promising.The region's growth rate is projected to rise from 5.3% in 2016 to 5.5% this year. The region is expected to continue to lead global growth in 2018, and growth is projected to remain strong at 5.4%. Many of the major developed and emerging market economies, particularly the US and commodity exporters, have been growing

Asia’s economic transformation is most evident in three areas. First Asian economies have sustained high investment in infrastructure, housing, Industry and human capital. Second, these economies are increasingly sophisticated and integrated across the region and with the rest of the world. And third,

In ASEAN we used AFTA or Asean Free Trade Area. It is a trade bloc agreement by Association of Southeast Asia Nation. Under AFTA, there are six countries of Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) including Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Brunei, and Thailand are no tariffs on approximately 8,000 product. Another four developed ASEAN nations will have further period to phase in tariff cuts. In Asean we trade everything not only goods and services, but the citizen also can go around these countries without visa and people can find job more easily. Because when the country had opened for all members in ASEAN people can work in the proper ways not work illegal in other ASEAN countries.

ASEAN (The Association of Southeast Asian Nations), just like the EU is a political and economic organisation formed in 1967 after the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (also known as the Bangkok Treaty) in Thailand. It started with only five members but at the moment it has ten members and it aims to achieve economic growth, peace and stability in the region, social progress and sociocultural evolution. (Long, 2014)

Globalization has become one of the most influential forces in the twentieth century. International integration of world views, products, trade and ideas has caused a variety of states to blur the lines of their borders and be open to an international perspective. The merger of the Europeans Union, the ASEAN group in the Pacific and NAFTA in North America is reflective of the notion of globalized trade. The North American Free Trade Agreement was the largest free trade zone in the world at its conception and set an example for the future of liberalized trade. The North American Free Trade Agreement is coming into it's twentieth anniversary on January 1st, 2014. 1 NAFTA not only sought to enhance the trade of goods and services across

The Association of Southeast Asian Nation is an organisation of political and economic integration of the ten Southeast Asian Countries. ASEAN was formed on 8th August 1967, by Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand. Since then, the membership of ASEAN has extended to embrace within Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, BURMA, AND Vietnam too. The aims of ASEAN are accelerating the economic growth, increase social progress and sociocultural evolution among its members. Apart from this, maintain regional peace and security, widen the opportunities for counter member to resolve differences peacefully may also know as main purposed of ASEAN organisation.

Another way of seeing political integration in ASEAN is to see how the ASEAN members deal with foreign entities and state. If political integration exists among ASEAN members, they will deal the problems collectively and unite under ASEAN. However, if they were to deal these issues individually as a state, there is a possibility that ASEAN had yet to manage in producing a strong political integration among is state members. One of the best scenarios that can be seen today is with regards to the claim over South China Sea (SCS) between several ASEAN members and China. From the outset, there are vast improvements on relations between China and their ASEAN counterpart mainly due to flourishing economic ties. However, within this prosperous

Improving the value of exports is the primary goal of Thailand’s international trade policy. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Economic Community (AEC) was established as an effective cooperative strategy for gaining market advantages through regional market integration. Thailand aims to capitalize on trade agreements by networking and entering partnership with neighboring countries. Currently, Thailand’s cross-border trade in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) plays a crucial role in globalization, because it facilitates rapid and convenient trade and investment. Countries seek new export markets to disperse the risk of domestic market concentration, as evidenced by the economic recessions affecting

During the period of cold war, neutrality was seen as the best approach for Cambodia to

ASEAN was officially founded in August 1967 when five founding member states jointly signed the Bangkok declaration. Since then ASEAN experienced number of threats, such as security threat in cold war, economic and financial threat in 1997 East Asia Economic crisis, and now being in the security dilemma between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, prominent major powers attempting to dominate the region, despite all the threat, ASEAN set its goal to become a community in December 2015 which has lot of potential to contribute to the world stage but it also has countless number of challenges, mainly caused by its diversities, nationalism and lack of