Growing an ASEAN voice? A common platform in global and regional governance

Abstract

The article explores the challenge of maintaining ASEAN unity and attempts to provide recommendations toward engendering such common ASEAN positions and platforms in international arena beyond 2015. However, even as a common voice and platform grows, ASEAN member states should be allowed to access their own existing channels and coalitions. An ASEAN common voice and platform should not be a monopoly or main conduit but an additional and supplementary avenue that each ASEAN member states can access. It concludes with some suggestions on the emerging needs and opportunities for ASEAN’s common voice and policy prescriptions