The Internal Effects of ASEAN External Relations

Starting with a typology of ASEAN external agreements the authors go on to provide an original reading of plurilateral agreements as ''joint'' agreements. The book then offers both a clarification of the effects - direct or indirect - of external agreements within the legal orders of ASEAN Member States and an explanation of the effects of external agreements within the legal regime of ASEAN. The authors conclude with a discussion of the role of ASEAN centrality and the role of the secretariat in shaping it.