Initiatives of Regional Integration in Asia in Comparative Perspective [electronic resource] : Concepts, Contents and Prospects /
Loewen, Howard.editor.
Zorob, Anja.editor.
This volume offers to compare and explain variances of regionalism in Asia by disclosing the distinctive features of regional arrangements and how they evolved during the 1990s and 2000s against the background of a changing global environment. Moreover, it takes up a genuinely 'inter-Asian' perspective. By analysing and comparing diverse manifestations of regional integration agreements across Asia and its different sub-regions, it sets out to track their common characteristics and sub-regional facets with respect to their establishment, design and consequences. In addition, political processes accompanying their negotiation and implementation are scrutinized. The analysis encompasses nine case studies written by renowned scholars who together as a group combine an extraordinary mixture of different disciplinary backgrounds as well as expertise on shapes and processes of regional integration in different parts of Asia. The case studies seize on some of the most important features and controversial issues characterizing the second regionalism. Such are the emergence and impact of overlapping FTAs, regional financial and sub-regional economic integration and cooperation, power and the politics of regional integration as well as the nexus between conflict resolution, state failure and regional integration. .
Chapter 1. Initiatives of Regional Integration in Asia in Comparative Perspective: An Introduction; Howard Loewen and Anja Zorob -- Chapter 2. Japan and China in a Two-Hub Formation of Regional Integration in East Asia; Lurong Chen -- Chapter 3.Regional Integration among Arab Countries in the Shadow of EU and US Free Trade Initiatives; Anja Zorob -- Chapter 4. The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) at 20 - Infrastructure Development and the Prospects for the Emergence of a Security Community; Timotheus Krahl and Jörn Dosch -- Chapter 5. Institutional Development and Institutional Interplay within the Global Financial Regime Complex - The IMF and Regional Financial Cooperation in East Asia; Howard Loewen -- Chapter 6. Shanghai Cooperation Organization: China, Russia, and Regionalism in Central Asia; Ishtiaq Ahmad -- Chapter 7. China's Rising Power in Southeast Asia and Its Impact on Regional Institution-building: Who is leading Whom?; Marco Bünte -- Chapter 8. Comparing Modes of Regional Economic Governance: The Gulf Co-operation Council and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Fred Lawson -- Chapter 9. East Asian Regionalization and North Korea: From Confrontation to Cooperation; Rüdiger Frank -- Chapter 10. State Failure and Regional Containment: The Case of Afghanistan; George Gavrilis.
This volume offers to compare and explain variances of regionalism in Asia by disclosing the distinctive features of regional arrangements and how they evolved during the 1990s and 2000s against the background of a changing global environment. Moreover, it takes up a genuinely 'inter-Asian' perspective. By analysing and comparing diverse manifestations of regional integration agreements across Asia and its different sub-regions, it sets out to track their common characteristics and sub-regional facets with respect to their establishment, design and consequences. In addition, political processes accompanying their negotiation and implementation are scrutinized. The analysis encompasses nine case studies written by renowned scholars who together as a group combine an extraordinary mixture of different disciplinary backgrounds as well as expertise on shapes and processes of regional integration in different parts of Asia. The case studies seize on some of the most important features and controversial issues characterizing the second regionalism. Such are the emergence and impact of overlapping FTAs, regional financial and sub-regional economic integration and cooperation, power and the politics of regional integration as well as the nexus between conflict resolution, state failure and regional integration. .
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