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Black cat, white cat: Lessons to be learned from ASEAN

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There is general agreement at present that the Southern African Development Community needs to re-imagine itself and breathe new life into its somewhat moribund structure. The European Union is often presented as the textbook example to be followed by other regional associations—a rules-based, heavily bureaucratic, and powerful supranational institutional structure to which individual nations have ceded sovereignty in several spheres (most notably the economy). At the other end of the integration spectrum sits the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

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  • Sandy Lowitt, 2019. "Black cat, white cat: Lessons to be learned from ASEAN," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2019-26, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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