Why can't Asia unite even for the sake of its own security? For decades, Western experts have complained about the failure of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to learn the value of collective security from Europe's post-War experience. ASEAN's leaders have ignored the lessons offered first by the Common Market, and then the European Union. The benefits of these models are supposedly so obvious that it seems incomprehensible that ASEAN's leaders cannot see them.
Why can't Asia unite even for the sake of its own security? For decades, Western experts have complained about the failure of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to learn the value of collective security from Europe's post-War experience. ASEAN's leaders have ignored the lessons offered first by the Common Market, and then the European Union. The benefits of these models are supposedly so obvious that it seems incomprehensible that ASEAN's leaders cannot see them.