On 8 August 2021, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) celebrated the 54th anniversary of the signing of the ASEAN Declaration by the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand in Bangkok in 1967.Originally conceived as a peace-building project in a region that was once considered the ‘Balkans of Asia’, ASEAN has gone on to unite 10 Southeast Asian countries under a banner of “One Vision, One Identity, One Community”, with the signing of the...