Achieving the Vision of the ASEAN Economic Community-2025: The Role of ASEAN Business Advisory Council

Abstract

The paper analyses the role of ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ABAC) in stimulating transnational commercial exchanges in Southeast Asia as part of the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community-2025. In like with this analytical focus, the authors start from revealing the specificity of the ASEAN Economic Community as a multilateral project tracing it from AEC-2015 to AEC-2025. The article argues that the role of the ABAC remains and will be defined by the overall evolution of ASEAN’s modality of cooperation reflecting its potential and limitations.