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"The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is entering a new phase in its development, following the adoption in late 2015 of blueprints for an integrated regional community that will involve deeper coordination between ASEAN's 10 members in politics and security, economics, and society and culture over the next decade. The challenge will be for ASEAN to move towards more formal and effective cooperation -- without, however, sacrificing the relative harmony that its tradition of consensual diplomacy and informal management of relations between states has allowed." --