On the Influence of Historical Factors on ASEAN Integration

Abstract

With the development of globalization and regionalism, the integration of ASEAN develops rapidly. In this paper, the object of study is ASEAN identity, which mainly explores the origin, inheritance, enhancement and prospect of ASEAN identity from the perspective of historical theory.

Although the reality and future requires that ASEAN should become a community of destiny, its emotion derives from the past. The existence of object consciousness in Southeast Asia is closely related to people's subject cognition, and the cultural value of the historical consciousness reflected by the identity of the reality needs us to reflection and reorganization. Therefore, the cultural identity concept in the long historical period before the establishment of the ASEAN is an important aspect of the evolution of regional consciousness in Southeast Asia, especially the emergence of Southeast Asia countries and colonialist invasion enhance the complexity of the regional consciousness, the national identity, the suzerain identity and the sub-region consciousness interweave with each other, which has an important impact to the real identity.