These competing views of ASEAN also have an impact on how analysts see ASEAN’s future. Neo-realists will tend to concentrate on what they see as ASEAN’s attributes that will give in the ability to coerce and mould its own region as well as the wider East Asian Region. Constructivists, for their part, will emphasize the extent to which ASEAN continues through its social interaction to develop a set of norms and an identity that will allow it to act in a coherent manner on specific economic and security issues. This analysis of ASEAN ‘s power will not end the debate between neo-realists and constructivists but it may help to bring into focus what is fundamentally at issue in the debate as it unfolds.