The ASEAN and the great power
The ASEAN and the great power

Summary/Abstract: The paper finished in October of 2015 outlines successively 1) the geo-economic and geopolitical position of the ASEAN and the member countries in the years 1980-2014, 2) the origins and the institutional development of the ASEAN, with taking into consideration of other, to some extent competitive, projects of regional cooperation, and 3) the connections, with the merchandise trade as a driving component, between, on the one hand, the ASEAN as the entity and the most important South-East Asian countries and, on the other hand, their four most important outside economic and geopolitical partners (in alphabetical order, China, the European Union, Japan and the United States). In the pattern of these external connections more and more easily is possible to identify the exceptional role played by the United States and China. In the case of China, we should take into consideration the Chinese diaspora and geo-economic and geopolitical impact of the Mekong River.

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