The Asean free trade area and the construction of a Southeast Asian economic community in East Asia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6233532 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alfredo C Robles (De La Salle University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 78-108 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0218-5377 • E-ISSN: 1750-7812 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02185370408434243 |
| OpenAlex | W1963819548 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 31 |
In October 2003, ASEAN leaders decided to establish an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2020. An AEC is presented by advocates as a logical step following the completion of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) by ASEAN6 in 2003. Adopting a critical political economy approach inspired by the work of Mitchell Bernard and Robert W. Cox, this article argues that the decision to launch AFTA and an AEC are motivated primarily by the desire to transform Southeast Asia into an investment site and a production base for the world market within East Asia, in competition with China. AFTA and a future AEC are decisions taken within the structural context of an East Asian region characterised, among others, by the organisation of Japanese production and the developmental state
China · Competition (biology · Context (archaeology · East Asia · Economic integration · Economics · Economy · Foreign direct investment · Free trade · Geography · International free trade agreement · International trade · Investment (military · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Southeast asia · State (computer science · Work (physics · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Global trade and economics · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
Network Power
Explaining Asean
Asia in Japan's Embrace
Production, power and world order
Approaches to World Order
Japan and the Construction of Asia-Pacific
The Political Economy of Industrial Integration in Asean
Preferences, interests, and regional integration
Understanding trade bloc formation
Signing on to liberalization
The political rationalities of regionalism
The Asean free trade area
Social Forces, States and World Orders
The crisis of postwar East Asian capitalism
Embedded mercantilism and open regionalism
Attempting developmental regionalism through afta
Democratisation and the prospects for participatory regionalism in Southeast Asia
States, social forces, and regions in historical time
Southeast Asian industrialisation and the changing global production system
Neorealism and its critics
Beyond Product Cycles and Flying Geese
The politics of productivity
Asean and EU
Economic Dynamism in the Asia-Pacific
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |