Agreeing to Disagree
The Political Reality of Asean Economic Cooperation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11069409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bilson Kurus (University of South Carolina, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 28-41 |
| Publication date | 1993-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Affairs An American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-7678 • E-ISSN: 1940-1590 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00927678.1993.10771146 |
| OpenAlex | W2084690338 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
Agreement (AFTA) signed at the Fourth ASEAN Summit in Singapore in January 19921 is just the latest and no doubt the most notable manifestation of ASEAN's always stressed but ever-slowly achieved objective of economic cooperation. Justifiably or not, the association is in the enviable position of being portrayed as a model of third world cooperation. Yet, having just celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary, ASEAN's achievements in the economic arena remain patchy at best. Although it has become a key actor in the Asia-Pacific region and a significant global one, twenty-five years of off-again, on-again efforts to foster intra-ASEAN economic cooperation have produced numerous agreements but few concrete results. The AFTA agreement is significant in that it both provides a means to attain it, the Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT), and a specific date (2008) by which it is to be achieved, but in view of the lackluster performance of ASEAN in the area of economic cooperation up to this point, one cannot help but view its full implementation with some skepticism. Nevertheless, it is worth noting that AFTA was negotiated amid fears of economic regionalism elsewhere. This raises the interesting possibility that given the rapidly changing regional and global economic and political environment, economic cooperation may now be increasingly viewed by the ASEAN states not so much as an organizational objective but rather as a necessity to their and ASEAN's future. Still, as with the broader issue of intra-ASEAN economic cooperation, the implementation of AFTA is not so much a question of want or desire but one of political will and political capacity. Though political will has been frequently cited as the obstacle to
Economics · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Global trade and economics · Law
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