Rodolfo C. Severino, former ASEAN Secretary-General, is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, where he is working on a book on ASEAN. The views expressed here are his own.
Rodolfo Severino provides an international perspective on Australia's attitude to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia. More enthusiasm and less reluctance on Canberra's part would have strengthened not undermined Australia's stature in the region, he argues.