Publication

This report proposes a set of 30 policy recommendations to the East Asia Summit’s evolution from an nascent regional institution for addressing broad concerns of an intramural nature, to a regional mechanism for generalized confidence building and thematic problem-solving. The authors do not see the summit as a replacement for the APEC, ARF and ASEAN+3, and all the functional mechanisms provided by such frameworks, but instead view it as a complimentary forum. They suggest that the East Asia Summit could be viewed as a venue for leaders from the region to advocate and encourage progress on various issues, which then could be better pursued within the other existing frameworks and organizations.