Charts the efforts to move ASEAN from a periodic meeting of foreign ministers to becoming a serious international organisation.

Simon Chesterman is Dean of the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, Editor of the Asian Journal of International Law, and Secretary-General of the Asian Society of International Law. His work has opened up new areas of research on conceptions of public authority, including the rules and institutions of global governance, state-building and post-conflict reconstruction, and the changing role of intelligence agencies. This is his fourteenth book.

General editors' preface; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ASEAN's approach to monitoring; 2. The purposes of monitoring; 3. Typologies of monitoring: a toolkit; 4. Conclusion; Executive summary; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.