Consensus and Contradictions in Asean: An Analysis of Southeast Asia at and after Ungass 2016

Abstract

In the years leading up to United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS), Southeast Asia drew the attention of the drug policy world because of its refusal to drop the goal of becoming a drug-free region and for the extreme methods used in striving to achieve it. This chapter presents an analysis of the official positions taken by governments in the regional body known as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations from before until after the UNGASS in the context of one of the most punitive drug policy environments in the world and offers a perspective on what we could expect from them in 2019.

Citation

Gunawan, R. and Lai, G. (2018), "Consensus and Contradictions in Asean: An Analysis of Southeast Asia at and after Ungass 2016", Klein, A. and Stothard, B. (Ed.) Collapse of the Global Order on Drugs: From UNGASS 2016 to Review 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 151-165. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-487-920181007