ABSTRACT
Despite the diversity across a myriad of policy areas, the nation states that comprise the membership of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have developed a mechanism for "cooperation" in matters pertaining to public administration and policy across its member states. ASEAN now provides a regional rival to the older and arguably more important organization for public administration affairs in Asia, the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA). Although ASEAN was established in 1967, it was not until the second meeting of the ASEAN Standing Committee in 1980 that the ASEAN Conference on Reforms in the Civil Service (ACRCS) was established as an ASEAN activity.
