Regional Cooperation for Whom? A Study of Asean–India FTA in the Context of Plantation/Tropical Products
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13083166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K N Harilal (Centre For Development Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 137-155 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Millennial Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2321-7081 • E-ISSN: 0976-3996 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0976399614541189 |
| OpenAlex | W2119988894 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
On account of multilateral and regional integration global governance is taking over hitherto unreached spaces of policy making including internal/domestic policies of nation-states. This is undertaken with the overriding objective of facilitating global accumulation of capital. Because of the competition to woo capital, the nation-states are under pressure to favour monopoly capital even at the expense of other interests such as those of labour, environment, local capital, gender, etc. But the success of capital is fast eroding its social constituency. The spread of peoples’ movements for democracy is a sign of this growing incongruence in the system. Nation-states will be constrained by popular opinion to take positions that are not necessarily friendly to monopoly capital. But they cannot do that in isolation. They will need to build up global collective action in favour of an alternative governance system that allow democracy to recapture its meaning, and help sustain national economic habitats and the economic diversity they conserve, against the forces of devastating economic homogenization abetted by unregulated competition. The article supports the above propositions drawing evidence from the case of tropical products. It builds the case for regional cooperation for governing trade and competition as opposed to the mainstream model of unbridled competition and unregulated markets
Capital (architecture · Collective action · Competition (biology · Context (archaeology · Corporate governance · Democracy · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Geography · International trade · Liberalization · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Global trade and economics · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law
Trade Policy and Economic Welfare
Termites in the Trading System
Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700
Regional Route to Multilateralism
Thinking rationally about hierarchy and global governance
The governance of global value chains
Tropical commodity chains, forward integration strategies and international inequality
Governance in Global Value Chains
The Calm Before the Storm? Revolutionary Pressures and Global Governance
Tax Havens and the Commercialization of State Sovereignty
Democracy and Globalization
The Structure of Foreign Trade
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |