Christopher M Dent
Biographic Data
| ID | 729295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher M Dent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher M |
| FAMILY NAME | Dent |
| SIGNATURE | DENT C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2113-5444 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Trade Risk Society-Understanding Trade Policymaking in the 2020s
Profound changes in trade policymaking are taking place in the 2020s in response to a complex set of increasingly salient risks shaping the international trade system. Drawing upon the influential theory of risk society, this study develops a new trade risk society framework providing original insights and new conceptual thinking on the subject. This analytical approach extends beyond merely a topical evaluation of current risks to one embedding …
The UK’s new free trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific: How closely is it adopting US trade regulation
In a global economy and system increasingly defined by new developments and complexities in trade, whose rules and regulations govern that trade matter. The UK has embarked on a new post-Brexit trade policy, signing its first wholly new free trade agreements (FTAs) with Australia and New Zealand. It is also in negotiations to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) as part of the UK’s aspirations to become an inte…
East Asia’s new developmentalism: State capacity, climate change and low-carbon development
This paper argues that to understand the relevance of developmental states in East Asia and elsewhere, we need to focus on the changing development agenda in the early twenty-first century, especially how this connects with the global challenge of climate change and thereby sustainable, low-carbon development. It combines theories on state capacity and ecological modernisation to form the ‘new developmentalism’ concept. This is applied to study r…
Clean Energy Trade Governance: Reconciling Trade Liberalism and Climate Interventionism
Scaling-up clean energy is vital to global efforts to address climate change. Promoting international trade in clean energy products (e.g. wind turbines, solar panels) can make an important contribution to this end through business and market expansion effects. If ratified, the landmark Paris COP21 Agreement will commit states to firmer climate actions, this necessarily requiring them to strengthen their promotion of clean energy technologies. We…
Cities, energy and climate change mitigation: An introduction
East Asian Regionalism
East Asia is one of the world's most dynamic and diverse regions and is also becoming an increasingly coherent region through the inter-play of various integrative economic, political and socio-cultural processes. Fully updated and revised throughout, this new edition explores the various ways in which East Asian regionalism continues to deepen. The second edition has been expanded to incorporate coverage of significant issues that have emerged i…
The great diversity: Trajectories of Asian development
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Great Diversity: Trajectories of Asian Development
Great Diversity: Trajectories of Asian Development
Paths ahead for East Asia and Asia-Pacific regionalism
East Asia and the Asia-Pacific are core components of the global economy, and there have been important recent developments in the regionalism of both regions. After the 1997-1998 financial crisis, East Asian countries initiated more exclusive regional cooperation and integration ventures mainly through ASEAN Plus Three, but lately this process has stumbled. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum has also failed to make substantial pr…
Renewable energy and East Asia's new developmentalism: Towards a low carbon future
East Asia's renewable energy (RE) sector has grown faster than any other region's since the mid-2000s. It is argued that renewables formed an integral part of the region's new industrial policies and new developmentalism, which are founded on new configured forms of state capacity shaped in response to various challenges, primarily climate change, energy security, globalisation and global neo-liberalism. By studying the recent progress of East As…
Understanding the Energy Diplomacies of East Asian States
Energy security is one of the major global challenges of the twenty-first century. Intensifying competition for ever scarcer forms of conventional energy resources is causing significant tensions in the international system. East Asia will have a more profound impact on global energy security than any other region as its burgeoning demand for energy fuels, spurred principally by China, is expected to continue growing at over twice the world avera…
Sub-Regional Cooperation and Developmental Regionalism: The Case of Bimp-Eaga
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia
East Asia
The Asian Development Bank and Developmental Regionalism in East Asia
The Asian Development Bank (adb) has made increasingly important contributions to Asia's (and particularly East Asia's) regionalism over recent years, and especially since Haruhiko Kuroda became the Bank's president in February 2005. This paper argues that the adb's role here has become more significant because of the strong 'developmental' characteristics of East Asia's new regionalism. This is not least because, as a regional development bank, …
Full circle? Ideas and ordeals of creating a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific
In 2004 and 2006, proposals were made at APEC summits to establish a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP). This was an essentially a reworking of an idea first raised in the mid-1960s to create a Pacific Free Trade Area, or PAFTA. Although the PAFTA initiative never advanced, it helped lay the first organizational foundations for regional economic community building in the Asia-Pacific. The recent FTAAP proposal thus brings us full circle …
Bilateral Free Trade Agreements: Boon or Bane for Regionalism in East Asia and the Asia-pacific
Since the late 1990s there has been a rapid proliferation of bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) projects in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific, regions previously largely devoid of FTA activity by comparison to others. As this trend has intensified, so have discussions on whether it will help advance regional co-operation and integration. This paper examines the nature of FTAs themselves and the main causes of East Asia and Asia-Pacific FTAs. The '…
The New Economic Bilateralism in Southeast Asia: Region-Convergent or Region-Divergent
A new pattern of bilateralism is evident in Southeast Asian economic diplomacy, and this may be broadly viewed from extra-regional and intra-regional perspectives. Regarding the former, an increasing number of states from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) group have engaged in the Asia-Pacific's new bilateral free trade agreement project trend, and two ASEAN member states – Singapore and Thailand – have been at its forefront. Reg…
The Asia-Europe Meeting and Inter-Regionalism: Toward a Theory of Multilateral Utility
The Asia-Europe Meeting framework was created in 1996, its primary purpose being to fortify relations between the East Asian region and the European Union. Moreover, ASEM partners must not only concern themselves with developing closer interregional ties but also attend to the significant global impact of their partnership, and thus the responsibilities that lie therein
From inter-regionalism to trans-regionalism? Future challenges for Asem
Transnational capital, the state and foreign economic policy: Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan
Various discourses and debates on the state - transnational capital relationship have emerged within the international political economy literature. The particular contribution offered here focuses on this relationship in three East Asian developmental states (Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan - the NIE-3) through the lens of foreign economic policy (FEP) analysis. In different ways their respective state governments have all worked closely along…
Networking the region? The emergence and impact of Asia-Pacific bilateral free trade agreement projects
This paper analyses the emergence and rapid expansion of Asia-Pacific bilateral free trade agreement (APBFTA) projects from the late 1990s onwards: by mid-2002, thirteen Asia-Pacific states had initiated or completed thirty-three APBFTA projects in total. It examines the reasons why new APBFTA projects first came about, primarily attributing this to the confluent trade institution failures of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, th…
Taiwan's Foreign Economic Policy: The 'Liberalization Plus' Approach of an Evolving Developmental State
Globalization has compelled state governments to embrace economic liberalization as a means to participate purposely in an increasingly 'borderless' world economy. At a general level, this is seen to enable the economies in their charge to engage more effectively in the integrated international linkages of production, finance, distribution and investment being created by transnational business activities. Economic liberalization refers to an open…
The Foreign Economic Policies of Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan
Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan – East Asia’s newly industrialised economies (the NIE-3) – experienced a profound development transformation over recent decades. Christopher Dent makes a comparative study of their foreign economic policies, highlighting how the NIE-3 have engaged with the international economic system in an increasingly dynamic way. The book develops a new macro-framework of foreign economic policy analysis that provides the st…
Networking the region? The emergence and impact of Asia-Pacific bilateral free trade agreement projects
This paper analyses the emergence and rapid expansion of Asia-Pacific bilateral free trade agreement (APBFTA) projects from the late 1990s onwards: by mid-2002, thirteen Asia-Pacific states had initiated or completed thirty-three APBFTA projects in total. It examines the reasons why new APBFTA projects first came about, primarily attributing this to the confluent trade institution failures of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, th…
East Asian Regionalism
East Asia is one of the world's most dynamic and diverse regions and is also becoming an increasingly coherent region through the inter-play of various integrative economic, political and socio-cultural processes. Fully updated and revised throughout, this new edition explores the various ways in which East Asian regionalism continues to deepen. The second edition has been expanded to incorporate coverage of significant issues that have emerged i…
Transnational capital, the state and foreign economic policy: Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan
Various discourses and debates on the state - transnational capital relationship have emerged within the international political economy literature. The particular contribution offered here focuses on this relationship in three East Asian developmental states (Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan - the NIE-3) through the lens of foreign economic policy (FEP) analysis. In different ways their respective state governments have all worked closely along…
East Asia’s new developmentalism: State capacity, climate change and low-carbon development
This paper argues that to understand the relevance of developmental states in East Asia and elsewhere, we need to focus on the changing development agenda in the early twenty-first century, especially how this connects with the global challenge of climate change and thereby sustainable, low-carbon development. It combines theories on state capacity and ecological modernisation to form the ‘new developmentalism’ concept. This is applied to study r…
Renewable energy and East Asia's new developmentalism: Towards a low carbon future
East Asia's renewable energy (RE) sector has grown faster than any other region's since the mid-2000s. It is argued that renewables formed an integral part of the region's new industrial policies and new developmentalism, which are founded on new configured forms of state capacity shaped in response to various challenges, primarily climate change, energy security, globalisation and global neo-liberalism. By studying the recent progress of East As…
The New Economic Bilateralism in Southeast Asia: Region-Convergent or Region-Divergent
A new pattern of bilateralism is evident in Southeast Asian economic diplomacy, and this may be broadly viewed from extra-regional and intra-regional perspectives. Regarding the former, an increasing number of states from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) group have engaged in the Asia-Pacific's new bilateral free trade agreement project trend, and two ASEAN member states – Singapore and Thailand – have been at its forefront. Reg…
The Asian Development Bank and Developmental Regionalism in East Asia
The Asian Development Bank (adb) has made increasingly important contributions to Asia's (and particularly East Asia's) regionalism over recent years, and especially since Haruhiko Kuroda became the Bank's president in February 2005. This paper argues that the adb's role here has become more significant because of the strong 'developmental' characteristics of East Asia's new regionalism. This is not least because, as a regional development bank, …
Korean foreign direct investment in Europe: The determining forces
Korea's more complete integration into the world economy has been stunted by past government policies aimed at preserving comprehensive control over the domestic economy. This situation has recently changed owing to prevailing structural weaknesses in the Korean economy and the dictates of the global competitive environment. Consequently, the level of Korean overseas investment has escalated, particularly in Europe — the Triad region which has tr…
Cities, energy and climate change mitigation: An introduction
Full circle? Ideas and ordeals of creating a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific
In 2004 and 2006, proposals were made at APEC summits to establish a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP). This was an essentially a reworking of an idea first raised in the mid-1960s to create a Pacific Free Trade Area, or PAFTA. Although the PAFTA initiative never advanced, it helped lay the first organizational foundations for regional economic community building in the Asia-Pacific. The recent FTAAP proposal thus brings us full circle …
Singapore ́s Foreign Economic Policy: The Pursuit of Economic Security
Singapore has maintained one of the most effective foreign economic policies (FEP) of any small state, with the city-state’s proactivity in the domain of economic diplomacy demonstrated at multiple levels. This article contends that Singapore’s fundamental FEP objectives are oriented by its pursuit of economic security. Various key determinants of Singapore’s foreign economic policy are presented in setting the general context to the main discurs…
The UK’s new free trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific: How closely is it adopting US trade regulation
In a global economy and system increasingly defined by new developments and complexities in trade, whose rules and regulations govern that trade matter. The UK has embarked on a new post-Brexit trade policy, signing its first wholly new free trade agreements (FTAs) with Australia and New Zealand. It is also in negotiations to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) as part of the UK’s aspirations to become an inte…
Clean Energy Trade Governance: Reconciling Trade Liberalism and Climate Interventionism
Scaling-up clean energy is vital to global efforts to address climate change. Promoting international trade in clean energy products (e.g. wind turbines, solar panels) can make an important contribution to this end through business and market expansion effects. If ratified, the landmark Paris COP21 Agreement will commit states to firmer climate actions, this necessarily requiring them to strengthen their promotion of clean energy technologies. We…
Sub-Regional Cooperation and Developmental Regionalism: The Case of Bimp-Eaga
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
Bilateral Free Trade Agreements: Boon or Bane for Regionalism in East Asia and the Asia-pacific
Since the late 1990s there has been a rapid proliferation of bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) projects in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific, regions previously largely devoid of FTA activity by comparison to others. As this trend has intensified, so have discussions on whether it will help advance regional co-operation and integration. This paper examines the nature of FTAs themselves and the main causes of East Asia and Asia-Pacific FTAs. The '…
The Asia-Europe Meeting and Inter-Regionalism: Toward a Theory of Multilateral Utility
The Asia-Europe Meeting framework was created in 1996, its primary purpose being to fortify relations between the East Asian region and the European Union. Moreover, ASEM partners must not only concern themselves with developing closer interregional ties but also attend to the significant global impact of their partnership, and thus the responsibilities that lie therein
Taiwan's Foreign Economic Policy: The 'Liberalization Plus' Approach of an Evolving Developmental State
Globalization has compelled state governments to embrace economic liberalization as a means to participate purposely in an increasingly 'borderless' world economy. At a general level, this is seen to enable the economies in their charge to engage more effectively in the integrated international linkages of production, finance, distribution and investment being created by transnational business activities. Economic liberalization refers to an open…
Reconciling Multiple Economic Multilateralisms: The Case of Singapore
The Singapore state devotes a high degree of its technocratic resources to economic diplomacy activities on various fronts. As a small, open and globalized city-state economy, Singapore’s prosperity is highly dependent upon the continued health and stability of the international economic system. Thus, “systemic security” objectives are afforded notable priority within the framework of Singapore’s foreign economic policy (FEP). This article examin…
Asem and the "Cinderella Complex" of EU-East Asia Economic Relations
Within the family of Triad power-regions (North America, Europe, East Asia), the Eurasian economic axis persists as the poor third relation in comparison to its trans-atlantic and transpacific counterparts. This study examines the nature of the "Cinderella complex" that besets EU-East Asia economic relations and the structural constraints within the Triadic political economy that impede its resolution. It more specifically considers what role can…
Trade Risk Society-Understanding Trade Policymaking in the 2020s
Profound changes in trade policymaking are taking place in the 2020s in response to a complex set of increasingly salient risks shaping the international trade system. Drawing upon the influential theory of risk society, this study develops a new trade risk society framework providing original insights and new conceptual thinking on the subject. This analytical approach extends beyond merely a topical evaluation of current risks to one embedding …
Paths ahead for East Asia and Asia-Pacific regionalism
East Asia and the Asia-Pacific are core components of the global economy, and there have been important recent developments in the regionalism of both regions. After the 1997-1998 financial crisis, East Asian countries initiated more exclusive regional cooperation and integration ventures mainly through ASEAN Plus Three, but lately this process has stumbled. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum has also failed to make substantial pr…
Understanding the Energy Diplomacies of East Asian States
Energy security is one of the major global challenges of the twenty-first century. Intensifying competition for ever scarcer forms of conventional energy resources is causing significant tensions in the international system. East Asia will have a more profound impact on global energy security than any other region as its burgeoning demand for energy fuels, spurred principally by China, is expected to continue growing at over twice the world avera…
The Eurasian Economic Axis: Its Present and Prospective Significance for East Asia
The economic relationship between East Asia and the European Union (EU) has been the subject of increasing academic attention. This has been heightened by politico-institutional endeavors to strengthen the weak link in the “Triad” (Europe, East Asia, North America—the world's dominant economic regions) since the early 1990s, including various bilateral initiatives such as the 1991 Japan–EU Declaration and the 1996 Korea–EU Trade and Co-operation …
What Difference a Crisis? Continuity and Change in South Korea's Foreign Economic Policy
This paper examines pre-crisis and post-crisis developments in Korea's foreign economic policy (FEP). In undertaking this exercise, it constructs a framework of FEP analysis within which these developments are studied. Korea's own 1997-8 financial crisis heightened pressures upon the country to introduce far-reaching policy reforms and structural economic adjustment. This pressure was partly formalized by the terms and conditions imposed by the I…
New interdependencies in Korea-EU trade relations
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Korean and Japanese foreign direct investment in Europe: An examination of comparable and contrasting patterns
Korean foreign direct investment in Europe: The determining forces
Korea's more complete integration into the world economy has been stunted by past government policies aimed at preserving comprehensive control over the domestic economy. This situation has recently changed owing to prevailing structural weaknesses in the Korean economy and the dictates of the global competitive environment. Consequently, the level of Korean overseas investment has escalated, particularly in Europe — the Triad region which has tr…
The Asem: Managing the New Framework of the EU's Economic Relations With East Asia
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New interdependencies in Korea-EU trade relations
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Asean and EU: Forging New Linkages and Strategic Alliances
What Difference a Crisis? Continuity and Change in South Korea's Foreign Economic Policy
This paper examines pre-crisis and post-crisis developments in Korea's foreign economic policy (FEP). In undertaking this exercise, it constructs a framework of FEP analysis within which these developments are studied. Korea's own 1997-8 financial crisis heightened pressures upon the country to introduce far-reaching policy reforms and structural economic adjustment. This pressure was partly formalized by the terms and conditions imposed by the I…
Asem (The Asia-Europe Meeting): A Window of Opportunity
Singapore ́s Foreign Economic Policy: The Pursuit of Economic Security
Singapore has maintained one of the most effective foreign economic policies (FEP) of any small state, with the city-state's proactivity in the domain of economic diplomacy demonstrated at multiple levels. This article contends that Singapore's fundamental FEP objectives are oriented by its pursuit of economic security. Various key determinants of Singapore's foreign economic policy are presented in setting the general context to the main discurs…
Singapore ́s Foreign Economic Policy: The Pursuit of Economic Security
Singapore has maintained one of the most effective foreign economic policies (FEP) of any small state, with the city-state’s proactivity in the domain of economic diplomacy demonstrated at multiple levels. This article contends that Singapore’s fundamental FEP objectives are oriented by its pursuit of economic security. Various key determinants of Singapore’s foreign economic policy are presented in setting the general context to the main discurs…
The Eurasian Economic Axis: Its Present and Prospective Significance for East Asia
The economic relationship between East Asia and the European Union (EU) has been the subject of increasing academic attention. This has been heightened by politico-institutional endeavors to strengthen the weak link in the “Triad” (Europe, East Asia, North America—the world's dominant economic regions) since the early 1990s, including various bilateral initiatives such as the 1991 Japan–EU Declaration and the 1996 Korea–EU Trade and Co-operation …
The European Union and East Asia: An Economic Relationship
Preface 1.The International Political Economy of EU - East Asai Relations: Theoretical Perspectives 2.Eu-East Asia Economic Relations: An Overview of Recent Developments 3.The Eu and ASEAN 4.The EU and Japan 5.The EU and China 6.The EU, Taiwan and Hong Kong 7.The EU and Korea 8.Regionalism and Inter-Regional Co-operation 9.Future Prospects for the EU - East Asia Economic Relationship. Appendix. References
Asem and the "Cinderella Complex" of EU-East Asia Economic Relations
Within the family of Triad power-regions (North America, Europe, East Asia), the Eurasian economic axis persists as the poor third relation in comparison to its trans-atlantic and transpacific counterparts. This study examines the nature of the "Cinderella complex" that besets EU-East Asia economic relations and the structural constraints within the Triadic political economy that impede its resolution. It more specifically considers what role can…
The Foreign Economic Policies of Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan
Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan – East Asia’s newly industrialised economies (the NIE-3) – experienced a profound development transformation over recent decades. Christopher Dent makes a comparative study of their foreign economic policies, highlighting how the NIE-3 have engaged with the international economic system in an increasingly dynamic way. The book develops a new macro-framework of foreign economic policy analysis that provides the st…
Reconciling Multiple Economic Multilateralisms: The Case of Singapore
The Singapore state devotes a high degree of its technocratic resources to economic diplomacy activities on various fronts. As a small, open and globalized city-state economy, Singapore’s prosperity is highly dependent upon the continued health and stability of the international economic system. Thus, “systemic security” objectives are afforded notable priority within the framework of Singapore’s foreign economic policy (FEP). This article examin…
From inter-regionalism to trans-regionalism? Future challenges for Asem
Transnational capital, the state and foreign economic policy: Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan
Various discourses and debates on the state - transnational capital relationship have emerged within the international political economy literature. The particular contribution offered here focuses on this relationship in three East Asian developmental states (Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan - the NIE-3) through the lens of foreign economic policy (FEP) analysis. In different ways their respective state governments have all worked closely along…
Networking the region? The emergence and impact of Asia-Pacific bilateral free trade agreement projects
This paper analyses the emergence and rapid expansion of Asia-Pacific bilateral free trade agreement (APBFTA) projects from the late 1990s onwards: by mid-2002, thirteen Asia-Pacific states had initiated or completed thirty-three APBFTA projects in total. It examines the reasons why new APBFTA projects first came about, primarily attributing this to the confluent trade institution failures of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, th…
Taiwan's Foreign Economic Policy: The 'Liberalization Plus' Approach of an Evolving Developmental State
Globalization has compelled state governments to embrace economic liberalization as a means to participate purposely in an increasingly 'borderless' world economy. At a general level, this is seen to enable the economies in their charge to engage more effectively in the integrated international linkages of production, finance, distribution and investment being created by transnational business activities. Economic liberalization refers to an open…
The Asia-Europe Meeting and Inter-Regionalism: Toward a Theory of Multilateral Utility
The Asia-Europe Meeting framework was created in 1996, its primary purpose being to fortify relations between the East Asian region and the European Union. Moreover, ASEM partners must not only concern themselves with developing closer interregional ties but also attend to the significant global impact of their partnership, and thus the responsibilities that lie therein
Bilateral Free Trade Agreements: Boon or Bane for Regionalism in East Asia and the Asia-pacific
Since the late 1990s there has been a rapid proliferation of bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) projects in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific, regions previously largely devoid of FTA activity by comparison to others. As this trend has intensified, so have discussions on whether it will help advance regional co-operation and integration. This paper examines the nature of FTAs themselves and the main causes of East Asia and Asia-Pacific FTAs. The '…
The New Economic Bilateralism in Southeast Asia: Region-Convergent or Region-Divergent
A new pattern of bilateralism is evident in Southeast Asian economic diplomacy, and this may be broadly viewed from extra-regional and intra-regional perspectives. Regarding the former, an increasing number of states from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) group have engaged in the Asia-Pacific's new bilateral free trade agreement project trend, and two ASEAN member states – Singapore and Thailand – have been at its forefront. Reg…
Full circle? Ideas and ordeals of creating a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific
In 2004 and 2006, proposals were made at APEC summits to establish a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP). This was an essentially a reworking of an idea first raised in the mid-1960s to create a Pacific Free Trade Area, or PAFTA. Although the PAFTA initiative never advanced, it helped lay the first organizational foundations for regional economic community building in the Asia-Pacific. The recent FTAAP proposal thus brings us full circle …
The Asian Development Bank and Developmental Regionalism in East Asia
The Asian Development Bank (adb) has made increasingly important contributions to Asia's (and particularly East Asia's) regionalism over recent years, and especially since Haruhiko Kuroda became the Bank's president in February 2005. This paper argues that the adb's role here has become more significant because of the strong 'developmental' characteristics of East Asia's new regionalism. This is not least because, as a regional development bank, …
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China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia
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