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东南亚国家联盟，通常被称为东盟，是一个由十个国家组成的政府间组织。1967年8月8日，印度尼西亚、马来西亚、新加坡、菲律宾、泰国五个国家，在泰国曼谷的外交部会议上，签署了东盟宣言，通常称为曼谷宣言。此外，这五个国家也被称为东盟创始成员国。后来，1984年1月8日，文莱也成为东盟成员国之一。1995年7月28日，越南加入东盟成为第七个成员，大约两年后，老挝和缅甸也进入东盟。柬埔寨加入东盟的时间理应和老挝和缅甸相同，但由于内部政治斗争，就被暂停直到1999年才正式加入。显然，这段时期中发生了一个小插曲，2002年东帝汶民主共和国从印度尼西亚独立出来，地理上位于东南亚。因此，它也可以说是东盟的一个成员，现在，它也是作为东盟成员国来考察的。

这段时期，东盟主要集中在改善东盟共同体的三大支柱：政治安全共同体(APSC)，东盟经济共同体（AEC）和东盟社会文化共同体（ASCC）（Keng，2009）。东盟创建的目的是保持亚洲与美国之间的和平与稳定，建立多边冲突解决机制，并拟定合作框架来应对传统和非传统安全威胁。

Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which is normally known as ASEAN, is an inter-governmental organization that consist of ten various nations. On August 8, 1967, five countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines Singapore and Thailand came to a meeting at Thai Department of Foreign Affairs building in Bangkok to sign the ASEAN Declaration, or more ordinarily known as Bangkok Declaration. Also, these five countries are also known as the Founding Members of ASEAN. Later on, Brunei has become one of the ASEAN members on January 8, 1984. On July 28, 1995, Vietnam joined ASEAN as the seventh member, and around two years later, Lao PDR and Myanmar also entered ASEAN. Cambodia should have joined ASEAN at the same time as Lao PDR and Myanmar, but it was suspended up until 1999 because of the internal political struggle. Obviously, these days, East Timor-Leste, which got independent from Indonesia in 2002, is geographically also located in Southeast Asia. As a result, it could also turn out to be one of the members, and now, it is being observed by the ASEAN member states.

These days, ASEAN mainly focus on improving 'The three pillars of the ASEAN community which are the ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC), the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC)....' (Keng, 2009). APSC was created with the aim of maintaining peace and stability between states, establishing resolution system for multilateral conflicts, and mapping out cooperative framework to deal with both conventional and unconventional security threats. Also, AEC was created with the purpose of advancing regional economic opportunities, facilitating multilateral trading and gaining competitive advantages over other regions resulting in ASEAN's prosperity and well-being. Last, ASCC was established with the intention of building peaceful and harmonious coexistence in the region while providing social fringe benefits and stability. Although these three communities have not been successfully implemented, ASEAN does focus much on the three communities and hope to finish them by 2015.

东盟的出现-The Emergence of ASEAN

There are two main reasons which led to the emergence of ASEAN. First, ASEAN was created with the purpose of reducing ASEAN member states' tensions. Of course, by 1967, most of the ASEAN members were in chaos since there were many wars which had just happened and had affected Southeast nations. Also, some states had just got their independence, so they did not have the potential in developing their own countries. As a result, they cooperated together so that they could assist one another. The Second point is that ASEAN states wanted to cut down the regional influence of the external actors in the regio