Pre-Charter and Post-Charter ASEAN: Cross-Pillar Decision-Making in the Master Plan for ASEAN Connectivity 2025
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2020
Abstract
In the pre-Charter system practices of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Member States for over 40 years, ASEAN Member States issued numerous communiques, declarations, and commitments – some in explicit treaty form such as the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation – and others in more cooperative “softer” international instruments. The growing recognition of the need for cross-pillar coordination and collaboration the development decisions, policies, and operational plans to implement the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity 2025 is an encouraging step toward fuller use of the structural innovations in a post-Charter ASEAN. The prospects for cross-pillar decision-making in a post-Charter ASEAN are particularly visible in the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity 2025. Giving legal effect and validity to ASEAN instruments, whether pre-Charter or post-Charter, does not only allow for predictability and reliability of ASEAN development policies, but concretely expresses ASEAN decision-making as the rule of law in Southeast Asia.
Recommended Citation
Desierto, Diane A., "Pre-Charter and Post-Charter ASEAN: Cross-Pillar Decision-Making in the Master Plan for ASEAN Connectivity 2025" (2020). Book Chapters. 109.
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/book_chapters/109
Publication Information
in ASEAN Law and Regional Integration: Governance and the Rule of Law in Southeast Asia's Single Market 24 (Diane Desierto & David Cohen eds., 2020).