Verico discusses the ASEAN economic integration from dual perspectives of time span (trade, investment and finance) and framework (bilateral, sub-regional, regional and regional plus). The work is a comprehensive study of the integration in the wake of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)’s...

Advancing East Asian regionalism : an introduction / Melissa G. Curley and Nicholas Thomas -- Theorising East Asian regionalism(s) : new regionalism and Asia's future(s) / Shaun Breslin -- The development of the ASEAN+3 framework / Akihiko Tanaka -- Building a Northeast Asian community : a...

Die ASEAN der 90er Jahre sieht sich verstrickt in ein dichtes Netz sicherheits- und wirtschaftspolitischer Interdependenzen. Mit dem Ende des Kalten Krieges sind die ehemals prägenden ideologisch motivierten Konflikte und die damit einhergehende weltweite Anbindung der Staaten an eine der...

"Sovereignty is a foundational idea upon which regional organization of nations is built, yet its demise has often been predicted. Regionalism, which commits states to common frameworks such as rules and norms, tests sovereignty as states relinquish some sovereign power to achieve other goals...

Launched as a political bloc and security pact in the aftermath of the Viet Nam War, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has evolved to embrace an ambitious economic agenda. Its latest project is to establish the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 31 December 2015. Fulfilling these...

When debating the pros and cons of economic regionalism, haven't we focused enough on trade in goods at the expense of services? This article argues that regionalism is certainly a building block, not a stumbling block to a multilateral trading system, using the services liberalization scheme of...