The Asean Way: The Way To Regional Peace?
Abstract: ASEAN is considered
as the most successful multilateral organization in the Asia region, especially
in maintaining regional security and peace. The majority of the international
observers, though, ASEAN has not produced any significance breakthrough and
notable impact and thus deemed to be an ineffective regional organization. The
key that separates ASEAN with others and allows it to maintain regional peace
and co-operation is its unique diplomatic engagement with its member states,
known as the ASEAN Way. The most important element of the ASEAN Way is the
practice of the principle of non-interference among its member states. ASEAN
members practiced this principle since the founding of the organization to
ensure state sovereignty that serves as an expression of respect and equal
standing for all member countries. This article explores the possibility of
ASEAN Way and its practice of internal diplomacy to be applied in other
regional or multilateral organizations. The purpose is first to measure and
analyse whether the ASEAN Way is an effective practice that benefits the ASEAN
members and the Asia region. If the practice is effective, according to the
measure and the scope of the paper, the author is interested to observe whether
the practice can be applied to other multilateral organizations. This is a
qualitative article, the effectiveness of the ASEAN Way will be observed and
analysed through the process and the result from conflict resolutions in ASEAN.
The source of research comes from a bevy of academic literature on ASEAN and
ASEAN Way as well as journalistic paper and articles.
Penulis: Susy Tekunan
Kode Jurnal: jphubintdd140280
