Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Most of the Rohingya refugees fled to Bangladesh, where they stay in refugee camps. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, more than 950.000 Rohingyas stay in Bangladesh, a country without the necessary amount of resources or lanIn order to analyze the history of the conflict and its geopolitical contexts, we have to make a little explanation on who are the Rohingyas and what are their origins. The Rohingyas are a small muslim minority in Myanmar that resides in the Rakhine State. They have a different culture than the Buddhist majority of Myanmar, they also differ on the language and the religion. Their origins go back to the fifteenth century, when thousands of Muslims migrated to the region. Some of them arrived during migration flows in the nineteenth and twentieth century, when Burma (known as Myanmar since 1989) was still a great Britain colony. With the independence of the former colony in 1948, several governments of Myanmar have denied their claims to be recogn...

The 25th of April the UPF held a conference about democracy and Southeast Asia. The name of the conference was “ Democracy in the European Union and its Impact in Asian Countries ” and it was given by professor Rajendra Jain, of Jawaharlal Nehru University. It was a very interesting conference and taking into account which is the subject of our project, it was a perfect fit. The conference explored different subjects such as the existence or not of a European identity, what is democracy, sovereignty of states, the idea of democracy that the EU tries to extend… Professor Jain argued that there’s no such thing as a common European identity because Europe is formed by different countries that still maintain their own identity, so there’s no sense of community. The citizens of the Eutopean Union don’t feel represented by its institutions. The lack of identity makes it difficult for Europe to be an influential actor when it comes to politics. The European Union is an important...

Members : Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore,Thailand, Vietnam Observers : Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste Headquarters : Jakarta, Indonesia. Secretary General : Lim Jock Hoi. Population : more than 600 million Area : 1.7 million square miles (4.5 million square km) The ASEAN was established the 8th of August of 1967 when the Bangkok declaration was signed. The Bangkok Declaration, also known as the ASEAN Declaration is the founding document of this association. It was signed in Bangkok by the five founding members: Indonesia, Malaysia, Phillippines, Singapore and Thailand. ASEAN is a regional intergovernmental organisation formed by ten southeast Asian countries that aimes to accelerate the economic growth, social progress and sociocultural evolution of this members. ASEAN also seeks to create economic and cultural relations between the countries that integrate it as well as to create relationships between ASEAN...

The data provided by ASEAN shows that all the countries which belong to the organization export a bigger percentage of goods outside the association rather than inside it. The country which exports the most intra-ASEAN is Laos (49,6% out of total exports) and the one that exports the least is Cambodia (8,6%), which at the same time are the same ones which exports the least and the most extra-ASEAN (50,4% and 91,4% respectively). This also proves that the extra-exports of goods are more than three times higher than the intra-exports. Referring to the GDP per capita, the richest country has always been Singapore (one of the founding members) with 52,963$, followed by Brunei Darussalam with 26,493$ (which is the half). A curious fact which is worth to mention is that these particular two countries reduced their GDP per capita value from 2015 to 2016, while the poorest ones increased it. This phenomena determined the rise of the average to 4,034$, which is st...