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Asean's Non-Interference Policy- Principles Under Pressure? Edited by Kao Kim Hourn & Jeffrey A. Kaplan Content Page In recent years, especially since the financial crisis hit the region in July 1997, several Asean leaders have challenged the regional grouping's policies and have called for a change, if not a departure, from the uncompromising hallowed principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of member states which has been a guiding principle of the regional grouping since its founding in 1967. The call for a change in in this principle is, as some have argued, legitimate and timely. They
contend that now that Asean has reached
a level of political maturity, the world has become increasingly
interdependent, and there is thus an urgent need to help the newer
members of the Asean. Should Asean play a more vigorous in the post-Cold
War world? Is there a need for change from Asean's principles of
non-intervention towards one of "constructive intervention"?
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