Effectiveness Of ASEAN: Maintaining Peace And Stability In Southeast Asia

History and Formation of ASEANThe Association of Southeast Asia Nations was founded on 8th August 1967 as a regional organization. At its formation, ASEAN had a membership of five nations including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Philippines. The five nations came up with the idea of forming a regional organization to help reduce the existing regional hostilities among the five nations at that time as well as fight as a unit …