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ASEAN Way has a ramification in the ASEAN political

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culture and the constructivist justification. The component
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of the ASEAN Way, as the regional mechanism, can be
investigated through ASEAN’s instruments. In this connection,

this paper considers an analysis on the legal mechanism of
the ASEAN Way that consists of two groups of principles:

(i) sovereignty and non-interference; and (ii) consensus and
flexibility.

The principles of sovereignty and non-interference

have been recognised in many ASEAN instruments. In this
regard, the nutshell of ASEAN cooperation was set forth in

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the Bangkok Declaration and the Zone of Peace, Freedom

40 Estrella D.Solidum, The Role of Certain Sectors in Shaping and Articulating the
ASEAN Way, in ASEAN: Identity, Development and Culture 134-135, (R.P.Anand
and P.Quisuimbing ed. 1981).
41 See Alastair Iain Johnston, Socialisation in International Relations: The ASEAN
Way and International Relations Theory, in International Relations Theory and
the Asia Pacific 107-144, (John Ikenberry & Michael Mastanduno eds., 2003).

42 That ASEAN shall represent “the collective will of the nations of South-East
Asia to bind themselves together in friendship and cooperation and, through
joint efforts and sacrifices, secure for their peoples and for posterity the
blessings of peace, freedom, and prosperity” See ASEAN Secretariat, The ASEAN
Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) Bangkok, 8 August 1967 (ASEAN Secretariat
ed., ASEAN Secretariat 1967).

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