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MAY 11, 2021

Syllabus:
What is the importance of ASEAN Studies?
● Contribute knowledge to ourselves and country
● Give impact to government policies, business practices, trust in education
● Apply learnings in dealing with other countries with regards to day to day lives
● Knowing how to assess impacts of policies vis-a-vis ASEAN

● Every zoom session, take into consideration copyright issues

● When citing references, give credit
● Always give credit to sources and authors
● TUESDAY = SYNC THURSDAY = ASYNC
LEARNING PLAN

WEEK 1 ● Async and reading/ watch

requirement

WEEK 2 ● Reading Material

WEEK 3 ● ASEAN Structure

● Journal?

WEEK 4 ● ASEAN Structure

● Journal?
● Quiz 1

WEEK 5 ● ASEAN Integration

WEEK 6 ● ASEAN Integration

WEEK 7 ● ASEAN Integration

● Reflection Journal?

WEEK 8 MIDTERM EXAM? Awit

WEEK 9 ● ASEAN Economy

WEEK 10 ● ASEAN Identity

● Group Project** (Magazine,
Pamphlet, Infosheet, poster,
website that will promote ASEAN
 as an organization)
Contents include: each principle,
identity, purpose, tourism? &
commerce?

WEEK 11 ● Quiz 4 (Tourism?)

● Continue Group project

WEEK 12 ● Cultural Heritage of ASEAN

WEEK 13 ● COVID-19
● Quiz
● Territorial Displacement

WEEK 14 ● FINAL Exams Week

- Journal = J (Ex: J1)

- Platform : Bigsky
- I’m GLAD to meet you as my students and UHM I CAN SEE YOUR NAMES HAHAHA
- Quiz (average of 10, 15, & 20 Questions , sometimes 200 or 300 word essay)

IMPORTANCE OF ASEAN?
Locations and Importance of ASEAN Nations:
- Unified factors of political, economic, social, cultural, environmental
- 10 members
- Some are located in the ASIAN continent and some are archipelagos like the
Philippines.

How ASEAN Developed in Historical Approach

- Out of several formations
- In the 60s, the young nations of SEA experienced colonization due to Ethnicity conflict,
dominant religion, issue of security
- Philippines, got out of colonizers first then everyone followed
- 1959, SEA Friendship and Economic Treaty (Didn’t last long)
- 1961 Association of SEA ( Malaysia, Thailand & Philippines) (didn’t last long cause of
territorial issues)
- 1962 MaPhilIndo(Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia)
- 1967 Birth of ASEAN
- 5 leaders
- August 8, 1967 in Bangkok

Tiers in ASEAN
1. ASEAN Ministers' Meeting (Once a year) (Host country, alphabetically)
2. ASEAN Standing Committee ( Foreign affairs)
3. ASEAN Secretary
Communities in ASEAN:
- Political & Security
- Economic
- Social & Cultural
MAY 18, 2021
ASEANST (SYNCHRONOUS)

19TH CENTURY ASIA

> Southeast Asia was not a distinct unit
> Distant colonies and protectorates
> 1940s - 1960s
> SEA becomes postcolonial nation states
> Our national cultures are derived from the works of colonial authors of the oast
> Common Trait of SEA

WHY ASEAN?
> New Nations Experience
- Internal Political Instability
- Ethnic Conflict {ethnic traditions are disturbed}
- Unity Problems {unite people: but with different religion, practices, etc}
- Weak Security and Defense Problems {migration}
> 1950s - 1960s
- SEA Religions is characterized as young nations (in nation-building)
> 1959
- SEA Friendship and Economic Treaty
> 1961
- Association of SEA (Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines)
> 1962
- MAPHILINDO (Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia)
> 1967
- BANGKOK DECLARATION - August 8, 1967 ASEAN (Malaysia, Singapore,
Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia)
> 1980-1999
- (Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar) - they were not archipelagic
countries but nevertheless decided to join asean for economic, political, and
social cooperation.

ASEAN PRINCIPLES
> Mutual respect of independence {democracy, parliamentary,
> Sovereignty {they have their own where they rules the people}
> Similar territories {boundaries of its nation is recognized and respected}
> Respect of National Identity {each nation is neutral to comments in each nation has}
NON-INTERFERENCE AND CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT
> Limited Intervention {national affairs, economic but they have constructive
engagement of ASEAN way}

ASEAN PRINCIPLES
> Confidence building Measure
- To avert war {have established strength and readiness; comparative status of
defense gesture(?) then every thinks wise before inclusion into another territory}
{Cooperative gesture to maintain readiness in terms of defense gesture(?); joint
military exercises}
> SEA Nuclear Weapons Free Zone
- Free from nuclear weapons or warfare {they declare that the ASEAN region
should be free from nuclear weapons, so no other member nations will use
nuclear weapons, no transfer point of nuclear weapons}

POLITICS AND STATECRAFT

> SEA politics and statecraft are managed within themselves, not from outside
members.

MAY 25, 2021

ASEANST (SYNCHRONOUS)
June 1 Synch (integration)

7 days and 15b pesos

Traffic problem Lose 3.5b pesos

Promise:

Better standard of living

● Economic
● Social institutions

AEC
Benefits
● Breaking down borders
○ Cost of production ,distribution, consumption
● Opening of trade barriers
○ Things that werent available Will be available to us
● More job opportunities abroad esp ASEAN countries
○ Restriction of workers will be lifted
● Better standard of living

Negative effects
● Language barriers
○ Each language handle w care
● Various kinds of taxation
● Slow infrastructure development

Effects on other institutions

Religious
● Boost moral
Education
● Better quality
● More area
Family
● Consumer behavior
● Provide
Government

PH Benefits
● Industrialization
○ Building better infrastructure
● Globalization and sustainable development
○ Availability of trade
○ Access info
○ Increase consumer behavior
● Solidarity
○ Among the countrymen