-the tension between the objective of promoting democracy, on the one hand, and the principle of non-interference, on the other.
-Democracy building as a collective regional objective implies that all ASEAN member states should become democracies. That would require peer pressure on non-democratic member states
-Constrained by the principle of non-interference, democracy can be promoted within the national boundary of a member state only if that state sees fit to democratize on its own initiative.