The Making of the ASEAN Charter

Contributed/Written by:

1. Dr Surin Pitsuwan, ASEAN Secretary-General

2. Pengiran Dato Paduka Osman Patra, Permanent Secretary, Prime Minister's Office, Brunei Darussalam

3. Tan Sri Ahmad Fuzi bin Abdul Razak, Ambassador-At-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia

4. Aung Bwa, Director General (Rtd.) Myanmar Ministry of Foreign Affairs

5. Rosario Gonzalez-Manalo, Special Envoy of the President for the ASEAN Charter, Republic of the Philippines

6. Tommy Koh, Ambassador-At-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore

7. Walter Woon, Attorney-General, Singapore

8. Pradap Pibulsonggram, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand

9. Nguyen Trung Thanh, Vietnam's Ambassador to Singapore

10. Ong Keng Yong, Ambassador-At-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore

11. Termsak Chalermpalanupap, Special Assistant to the ASEAN Secretary-General

12. Dian Triansyah Djani, Director-General for ASEAN Cooperation, Department of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Indonesia

13. Kao Kim Hourn, Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia

14. Bounkeut Sangsomak, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Lao PDR

Edited by:

1.Tommy Koh

2. Rosario G Manalo

3. Walter Woon

(Book Review No. 3: Finished reading in September)

ISBN: 9789812833907

Price: SGD 38.52 (original), SGD 20 (after sale)

The Making of the ASEAN Charter

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The book, with its collection of essays by the drafters of the Charter and other ASEAN personages, provides an interesting internal perspective on the issue by those who actually crafted the Charter. It is perhaps a simple expression of the nature of ASEAN itself, with decision making based on consultation and consensus and the importance of personal relationships and the critical role that informal diplomacy had to play. Written by a collection of some of the most prominent foreign policy elites in ASEAN, it provides an eloquent and elegant defense of the Charter as well, defending the various processes of ASEAN and the components of the Charter. It indeed is a must read for anyone interested in ASEAN.

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