TY - BOOK AU - Neo,Dora Swee Suan AU - Sauvé,Pierre AU - Streho,Imola TI - Services trade in ASEAN: the road taken and the journey ahead T2 - Integration through law : the role of law and the rule of law in Asean integration SN - 9781316645413 PY - 2019/// CY - Cambridge, United Kingdom PB - Cambridge University Press KW - ASEAN KW - Service industries KW - Law and legislation KW - Southeast Asia N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Services and services trade in ASEAN : trends and policy context -- Is ASEAN an optimal regulatory convergence area in services? -- Liberalization of trade in services in ASEAN : trends, achievements and prospects -- Lessons from the European Union relevant to ASEAN integration in services N2 - 'Introduction The Member States of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) set themselves the ambitious aim of establishing a region-wide economic community by 2015 and to deepen it in the context of the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint 2025. In striving to achieve such ambitious objectives, there are strong reasons, both internal to ASEAN's own integration process and linked to the region's deepening ties with a dense layer of external economic partners, to believe that service sector reforms, and trade and investment in services more particularly, will occupy a place of choice in the region's policy pantheon'-- ER -