The adoption of an ASEAN Blueprint at
the following 13th ASEAN Summit held on 20
November 2007 in Singapore was to serve a
coherent master plan guiding the establishment
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of the AEC. While the ASEAN PoliticalSecurity
Community and the ASEAN SocioCultural
Community aim to promote a
peaceful environment within the region
(ASEAN Secretariat, 2009a) and build a just
and enhanced society (ASEAN Secretariat,
2009b), respectively, the AEC envisions a
single market and production base along with
a competitive economic region, an equitable
economic development and a region integrated
into the global economy (ASEAN, 2011).