ASEAN Enlargement: Impacts & Implications

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The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) was established as an autonomous organization in 1968. It is a regional research centre for scholars and other specialists concerned with modern Southeast Asia, particularly the many-faceted problems of stability and security, economic development, and political and social change. The Institute’s research programmes are Regional Economic Studies (RES, including ASEAN and APEC), Regional Strategic and Political Studies (RSPS), and Regional Social and Cultural Studies (RSCS). The Institute is governed by a twenty-one-member Board of Trustees comprising nominees from the Singapore Government, the National University of Singapore, the various Chambers of Commerce, and professional and civic organizations. An Executive Committee oversees day-to-day operations; it is chaired by the Director, the Institute’s chief academic and administrative officer.© 2001 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore First published in Singapore in 2001 by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Pasir Panjang Singapore 119614 Internet e-mail: publish@iseas.edu.sg World Wide Web: http://www.iseas.edu.sg/pub.html All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.© 2001 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. The responsibility for facts and opinions in this publication rests exclusively with the editors and contributors and their interpretations do not necessarily reflect the views or the policy of the Institute or its supporters. ISEAS Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data ASEAN enlargement : impacts and implications / edited by Mya Than and Carolyn Gates. Papers originally presented at the ASEAN Transitional Economies Roundtable, Singapore, 20–21 November 1997. 1. ASEAN countries—Economic integration—Congresses. 2. ASEAN countries—Foreign relations—Congresses. 3. Investments, Foreign—ASEAN countries—Congresses. 4. Free trade—ASEAN countries—Congresses. 5. ASEAN countries—Foreign economic relations—Indochina—Congresses. 6. Indochina—Foreign economic relations—ASEAN countries—Congresses. 7. ASEAN countries—Foreign economic relations—Burma—Congresses. 8. Burma—Foreign economic relations—ASEAN countries—Congresses. I. Mya Than. II. Gates, Carolyn L. III. ASEAN Transitional Economies Roundtable (1997 : Singapore) HC441 A847 2001 sls2000038662 ISBN 981-230-081-3 Typeset by International Typesetters Pte. Ltd. Printed in Singapore by Seng Lee Press Pte Ltd.© 2001 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore ...