The Socialist Republic of Vietnam's accession on 11 January 2007 to the World Trade Organization was not an isolated foray into the global trading system, but rather the culmination of nearly twenty years of incremental integration and adjustment to WTO standards through preferential trade...

This book analyses recent developments and likely future paths for trade and financial integration in East Asia. It suggests a more coherent, balanced way forward for regional economic integration and analyses implications for institution building in East Asia.

Community title schemes are an increasingly popular form of housing in Queensland and throughout Australia in general. Community title housing (typically apartment buildings and townhouses) involve medium to high-density living, which in turn tend to produce a higher incidence of neighbourhood...

The existing literature on ASEAN’s trade disputes focuses on whether the organization will indeed develop into a rules-based association, or whether political methods will continue to be used in preference to legal principle. The conclusion, generally from outside observers, is that if ASEAN...

These draft “Rules of Procedure” is to implement the draft Agreement on the Establishment of the Asia-Pacific Regional Mediation Organization (the ARMO Agreement). In order to have a friendly, swift and peaceful settlement of dispute under the ARMO, the mediation rules are of critical...

The 2020 Defence Strategic Update recognises that Australia’s interests are corroded where states evade the rules-based order to carry out subversive ‘grey-zone’ activities in pursuit of interests contrary to Australia’s. Weaponised Trade is a grey zone activity of particular concern for...

As it enters its second decade of operation, the World Trade Organization (hereinafter “WTO”) is operating in a vastly different context to that which was present at its creation in 1995. There seems to be a consensus that, although difficult, reform is necessary to reinvigorate the WTO. On...