Legal Development of the ASEAN Community Building

Abstract

ASEAN was created in 1967 as an inter-governmental organization of the Southeast Asian countries in order to promote economic, political, security, and social cooperation in this region. Since its inception, ASEAN has been expanding its cooperative efforts to neighboring countries as well as strengthening its own internal cooperation. ASEAN tries to build up a single community with one vision and one identity. The ASEAN Community is divided into three main pillars, the ASEAN Political-Security Community, the ASEAN Economic Community and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community.The building of the ASEAN Community has been realized through law. As of today, more than 1300 laws and legal measures are working for the ASEAN Community. Legal analysis of the ASEAN Community is thus critical to understand, design and pave its future way. This research paper will examine the legal development for the ASEAN Community building comprehensively.