Introduction

After the introduction section, the article is organized as follows. Section 2 examines the 'planning and designing' process with a view to understanding the objectives of those agreements in the broader context of regional economic integration and ASEAN Community building process. Section 3 focuses on the 'tailoring and customizing' process of creating agreements to serve the desired objectives. Section 4 analyzes one aspect of the versatile ASEAN architecture (its investment-protective dimension), and Section 5 examines the other aspect (its sovereignty-preserving dimension). Section 6 ...