Asean-Eu Partnership: The Untold Story

Download or read book Asean-Eu Partnership: The Untold Story written by Tommy Koh and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union is the most successful regional organisation in the world. ASEAN is the most successful regional organization in Asia. The story of the important and multi-faceted relationship between these two organisations, has seldom been told. This is the first book about the relationship, written from the ASEAN perspective. The book describes the many areas in which ASEAN and the EU, have convergent interests and, the few areas, in which they have divergent views. The book also looks to the future and suggests some possible areas of cooperation. The book contains essays from all the ten ASEAN countries. The book's foreword is written by Singapore's Foreign Minister, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan.