Over last two decades, we were witnessing the marked increase of trade and investment in Asia, especially intra-ASEAN and between China-ASEAN, inducing the establishment of many international arbitral institutions and promulgation of arbitration laws in the Member States. In which, Singapore...

The WTO has not been able to recover since the collapse of the Doha Round in July 2008. Several ministerial conferences including the Buenos Aires meeting in December 2017 failed to reach agreement. The US Trump Administration launched a campaign to reform the WTO in 2018 and 2019. This book...

The aim of this article is to understand the dispute settlement mechanism in the ASEANChina Free Trade Agreement, hereinafter ACFTA. The ACFTA consists of ten ASEAN members plus one, namely Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand,...

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...