... such as QUAD and AUKUS, as well as its promotion of its own “depoliticized” version of the Indo-Pacific concept—one deliberately stripped of overtly anti-Chinese connotations.
Reason 2
. Another challenge to the “global majority” concept in Southeast Asia stems from ASEAN’s institutional identity. For the Association, maintaining “ASEAN centrality” is of existential importance: it is around ASEAN that key regional dialogue platforms are organized, including the East Asia Summit, the ASEAN Regional Forum, the ...
Working Paper No. 92 / 2025
Working Paper No. 92 / 2025
The following working paper examines the relationship between the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It includes a detailed assessment of trade and economic ties between the two associations, identifying the key priorities and interests of EAEU member states in developing trade and economic relations with ASEAN countries. The paper also attempts ...
... Southeast Asia, and put forward recommendations for stronger cooperation between the blocs.
As part of the discussion, experts weighed in on the findings and reflected on major challenges in political, trade and economic relations between the EAEU and ASEAN. Speakers included Dmitry Mosiakov, Head of the Center for Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies; Anna Pak, Associate Professor of the Department of International Economic Relations at RUDN University; Nikita Pyzhikov, Head of the Center for Economic Integration at the ...
... authoritarian ones—ultimately restricting freedoms for many nations and hurting prosperity and security.
At the same time, U.S. President Donald Trump’s
decision
to raise duties and tariffs on various groups of countries, including friendly ones, has put ASEAN in an extremely difficult position. Southeast Asia is
about
to be hit by a “tsunami of imports” from China, as bilateral trade is already approaching the trillion-dollar mark, while the region is unlikely to be able to tap into the U.S. domestic market to make up for the imbalance....
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Ekaterina Koldunova:
Asian Multilateralism: A Test of Strength
The pandemic has severely damaged the tourism industry around the world, and countries of Southeast Asia (SEA) are no exception. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was actively developing tourism as one of the drivers of regional economic growth. Since 1992, ASEAN has taken deliberate steps to promote the region as a single tourism destination. As of 2019, the tourism sector
contributed
about 11.7% of region-wide ...
... global dialogue structures. For the first time in the history, G20 was chaired by Indonesia, while the APEC chairmanship was taken on by Thailand, and ASEAN’s chairmanship went to Cambodia. The year 2022 was expected to pass under the sign of the ASEAN leadership, with paths to an effective post-COVID recovery identified, especially since the positive economic dynamics of Southeast Asian nations provided grounds for cautious optimism.
Gleb Toropchin:
Taking (Another) Turn to the East: Making Sense of Russia’s Stance in the Asia-Pacific
These considerations guided Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia in setting their chairmanship ...
... Federation Vladimir Putin made a state visit to Singapore and attended the
13th East Asia Summit (EAS)
, which was the first visit since Russia became a member to the summit in 2010. At the same time, President Putin took a part in the
3rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) — Russian Federation Summit on Strategic Partnership
.
Southeast Asian states show interest in joining the Greater Eurasian Partnership which promotes
growing economic connectedness
in the Eurasian continent. The Greater Eurasian Partnership ...
... institution-building from other regions of the world.
First published in Russian on the site of
The Carnegie Moscow Center
Notes
1
ASEAN.org. – 2015. – December 21 //
http://www.asean.org/storage/2016/01/statistic/table19_asof21Dec15.pdf
; Russia – ASEAN: Southeast Asia Needs to get to Know Business Russia. –
Torgovo-promyshlenniye vedomosti
. – 2015. – September 18 //
http://www.tpp-inform.ru/analytic_journal/6157.html
.
2
Flows of Inward Direct Investment to ASEAN Member States by ...
... Asia will encourage the rationalism dynamics in the entire East Asian region, including in the northeast. On the other hand, it was mentioned in the report that Japan is no longer the only major nation in Northeast Asia that has active operations in Southeast Asia, and its relationships with China and South Korea produce a direct impact on ASEAN. Therefore, the prospect of the possible “reconstruction” of the Asian subregions in the foreign policy agenda and related discourse appears to be associated with the balance of forces in Asia.
From constructivism to neorealism
REUTERS/Jonathan ...
... about increasing political and military tensions in the Middle East, but also, and primarily, because the terrorist organization poses a very real threat to the national security of countries all over the world. It is these considerations that prompted Southeast Asian countries to hold a special ministerial
meeting
under the aegis of the ASEAN on the growth of radicalism and violent extremism.
While this is not a new problem for the region (religious confrontations between Muslims and Christians, and between Buddhists and Muslims, flare up from time to time in various Southeast Asian ...
