Regional Cooperation in South Asia and Southeast Asia

Index

Index A Abdurrahman Wahid, 126 Action Committees, 73 Acharya, Amitav, 200, 202 Afghanistan, 69, 135, 339 Agreement on Establishment of SAARC Food Security Reserve, 84 Agreement on the Establishment of SAARC Arbitration Council, 79 Agreement on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Customs Matters, 79 Akbar Zaidi, 264 A.K.M. Abdus Sabur, 221 Ali Alatas, 72 American hegemony, 16 Andean Pact, 71 Annual Meeting of Foreign Ministers, 163 Anwar Ibrahim, 163, 165 APEC, 16 A.P. Rana, 139 Arab League, 8, 38 Army Welfare Trust, 264 ASEAN see Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN Chambers of Commerce and Industry, 55 ASEAN Charter, 53, 71–72 ASEAN Community, 53, 72, 348 ASEAN Concord, 154 ASEAN Declaration on the South China Sea, 154 ASEAN Development Cooperation Programmes, 87 ASEAN dialogue partners forum for various issues, 93 ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), 52, 53, 63 ASEAN Economic Ministers, 67 ASEAN Finance ministers, 103 ASEAN Food Security Information System Project (AFSIS), 294 ASEAN Foundation, 320, 347 ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA), 51, 57, 232, 233, 311 ASEAN Fund, 87 ASEAN Harmonized Tariff Nomenclature, 103 ASEAN Health Ministers Meeting, 306 ASEAN Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), 310 07 Index p353-369.indd 353 4/27/07 1:21:40 PM 354 Index ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Organization (AIPO), 47 ASEAN Investment Area (AIA), 232 ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM), 47, 94 ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (AMMTC), 300 ASEAN Ministers on Rural Development and Poverty Eradication (AMRDPE), 293 ASEAN Peopleʼs Assembly (APA), 317 ASEANPOL, 299 ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), 49, 155, 176, 177, 180, 185 ASEAN regional integration, 234 ASEAN-SAARC inter-regional relations, 96 ASEAN Secretariat, 54, 58, 82, 83, 333 ASEAN Security Community (ASC), 53, 179 ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC), 53 ASEAN Standing Committee, 67 ASEAN states commitment for maintaining peaceful relations, 193 failure to create supranational authority, 49 reluctance to formalize rules, 25 self restraint, practice of, 140 ASEAN Summit, 57 since 1976, 75 ASEAN+3 (APT), 22 bringing together Northeast and Southeast Asian regions, 23 growth in process, 24 ASEAN+3 cooperation, 237 ASEAN+3 summits, 76 ASEAN-10, 30 ASEAN: The Way Forward, 55 ASEAN Transboundary Haze Pollution Control Agreement, 59 ASEAN-Troika, 164 ASEAN Vision 2020, 53, 282, 294 Asian Development Bank (ADB), 63, 99, 157, 160 Office of Regional Economic Integration, 347 regional technical assistance (RETA) study, 296 Asian Economic Community, 185, 207, 270 Asian financial crisis, 157, 158 Asian Investment Bank, 224 Asian regional arrangement, 37 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), 49 Association of Southeast Asia (ASA), 119 07 Index p353-369.indd 354 4/27/07 1:21:40 PM Index 355 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), 17, 20, 208, 269, 270, 272, 274, 350 aggregate imports, 230 avoid compromising fragile political cohesion, 46 budget and funding, 86–90 community-building objective, 51 conception, 44 conditions for regional integration, 222–39 consensus-based decisions, 50 dispute settlement mechanism, 52 economic bloc, as an, 207 economic cooperation, 231 engaging extra-regional powers, 92 free trade agreements, 207, 223 from policy to legal regime, 103 glaring institutional deficit, 101 guided by national approach, 63 institutional dilemmas, 48–61 institutional evolution, 56 institutional review, 104 intra-regional relations, 175 lacking in institution building, 30 model for regionalism, as, 66 need to rethink strategies, 115 non-interference principle, 160–70, 192 not a supranational organization, 55 not imitation of European effort, 26 objectives written in general terms, 45 operational rules, 189 overall trade, 212 political and social community path, 31 preferential trade agreements, 212, 223 regional cooperation and integration, 344 resolving disputes through international mediation, 341 response to regionʼs problems, 49 security arrangement, 119 state driven, 32 towards a community, 177–88 war on terrorism, 170 Aung San Suu Kyi, 169 Australia invited to East Asia Summit, 24 Avian flu, 306 Ayesha Siddiqa, 264 B Bali bombings, 171 Bali Concord II, 347 Bali Summit, 60 07 Index p353-369.indd 355 4/27/07 1:21:40 PM 356 Index Bali Summit (1976), 148 Baltic Republics, 4 Bangkok Declaration, 45, 281, 332, 347 Bangladesh, 121, 134 concerns and objectives, 277 conflict with Pakistan, 145 differences with India, 142–43 Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal Growth Triangle, 186 Bangladesh-India border, 297 Bangladesh Nationalist Party, 99, 242, 337 Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), 97, 181, 255, 269 FTA Framework, 181 Bhutan, 143, 146, 249, 349 big power...