We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
from QUINTESSENTIAL ISSUES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2015
The United States is deeply committed to supporting ASEAN and its goal of creating the ASEAN Community by 2015. For over thirty years, the United States has been a faithful dialogue partner, working closely with ASEAN to implement a wide range of projects and programmes that have supported growth, security, democracy, and prosperity in the region.
The basis for ASEAN-U.S cooperation is the Joint Vision Statement on the ASEAN-U.S. Enhanced Partnership (AEP) that was simultaneously issued in all ASEAN capitals and in Washington D.C. in 2005. This document sets out the broad goals for the ASEAN-U.S. relationship. It provides for cooperation across all three of ASEAN's pillars to promote an “open and outward looking, dynamic and resilient ASEAN Community”.
To implement the AEP, ASEAN and the United States developed the ASEAN-U.S. Enhanced Partnership Plan of Action in 2006. This document identified specific, actionable programmes that could be implemented to promote the broad goals of the AEP. The first plan of action operates for five years, expiring in 2011. ASEAN and the United States are currently in the process of developing a new plan of action to cover the period from 2011 to 2016, to be finalized in mid-2011. As called for in the AEP, the United States and ASEAN negotiated and signed the United States–ASEAN Trade and Investment Framework Arrangement in 2006 that provides further structure for cooperation on economic matters.
Over the past two and a half years, the Obama administration has sought to further expand and enhance the U.S. relationship with ASEAN. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on her first trip outside the United States as Secretary of State, visited the ASEAN Secretariat in February 2009 and said, “This region is vital to the future of not only the United States and each of the countries, but to the world's common interests.” She noted that ASEAN embodies “a set of countries that will be key to any solutions we pursue on climate change, counter-terrorism, global health, and so much else”.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
