Starting with a typology of ASEAN external agreements

The authors go on to provide an original reading of plurilateral agreements as ''joint'' agreements.

The book then offers both a clarification of the effects - direct or indirect - of external agreements within the legal orders of ASEAN Member States, and an explanation of the effects of external agreements within the legal regime of ASEAN.

The authors conclude with a discussion of the role of ASEAN centrality and the role of the secretariat in shaping it.