Beyond Consensus: Democratic Element in ASEAN Plus Three Economic Cooperation

Conflicts in the South China Sea and China- ASEAN Economic Interdependence: A Challenge to Cooperation

The Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Geo-Economic Relationships between China and ASEAN Countries: Competition or Cooperation?

In the last 30 years, China’s economic power has experienced great changes and has brought about a profound impact on the world economy. This led us to ask a question: do changes in China’s economic power shift the geo-economic relationships between China and its neighboring countries? To answer this question, we researched the evolution of geo-economic relationships between China and the Assoc...

The ASEAN economic community and medical qualification

BACKGROUND In the regional movement toward ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), medical professions including physicians can be qualified to practice medicine in another country. Ensuring comparable, excellent medical qualification systems is crucial but the availability and analysis of relevant information has been lacking. OBJECTIVE This study had the following aims: 1) to comparatively analyze ...

The robustness of democratic consensus

In linear models of consensus dynamics, the state of the various agents converges to a value which is a convex combination of the agents’ initial states. We call it democratic if in the large scale limit (number of agents going to infinity) the vector of convex weights converges to 0 uniformly. Democracy is a relevant property which naturally shows up when we deal with opinion dynamic models an...

Chapter Three 3 Higher Education Development in Cambodia: Implications for the Asean Economic Community

The rise of the knowledge-based economy has made higher education become even more crucial as an engine for economic growth in a global and regional context. This article aims to assess the performance of higher education institutions (HEIs) in Cambodia in preparing their graduates for the competitive labour market in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). The triple helix model for innovation is ...