The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a miracle.
Mahbubani and Sng offer an important primer for understanding this immensely successful--and woefully underappreciated--regional organization..
As the world turns to Asia and the United States and China jostle for dominance, the ASEAN region will have an undeniably powerful role in shaping our global systems.
Kishore Mahbubani and Jeffery Sng explain how this partnership has benefited the ten member countries and why it should serve as a model for other regions of the world, challenging our assumptions about international cooperation.
Fifty years and five additional countries later, the alliance has remained one of the world\'s most successful collaborations.
They had realized that political and economic cooperation would bring greater stability and prosperity to the region.
In 1967, leaders from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand struck a landmark agreement, forming ASEAN.
Here, more than 625 million people live together in peace.
Yet the ten countries of ASEAN are a thriving counter-example of coexistence.
In an era of growing cultural pessimism, there is a pervasive belief that different civilizations cannot function together.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a miracle
