INTRODUCTION
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) adopted the ASEAN Charter in November
2007, 40 years after ASEAN’s founding. The ASEAN
change is the shift from a statecentered
ASEAN to a people centrered
one. The preamble of the Charter
begins with the phrase, “We, the peoples of the Member
States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN),”1 signifying a new basis for the organization’s