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Explain the success of ASEAN as a regional organisation.

  • UPSC 2021
  • 15 marks
  • Regionalisation of World Politics

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When five foreign ministers signed the Bangkok Declaration on 8 August 1967, the geographer Charles A. Fisher had asked (1962) whether Southeast Asia was "the Balkans of the Orient". Indonesia had just ended its Konfrontasi with Malaysia. ASEAN, eleven members strong since Timor-Leste joined on 26 October 2025, succeeded by aiming at regional order rather…

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