Cross Regional Trade Agreements: Understanding Permeated Regionalism in East Asia

✍ Scribed by Professor Saori N. Katada, Professor Mireya Solís (auth.), Professor Saori N. Katada, Professor Mireya Solís (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 173
• Series: The Political Economy of the Asia Pacific
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An unacknowledged key feature of East Asian FTA diplomacy is the region's active cross-regional preferential trading relations. In sharp contrast to the Americas and Europe, where cross-regional initiatives gained strength after the consolidation of regional trade integration, East Asian governments negotiate trade deals with partners outside of their region at an early stage in their FTA policies. The book asks three main questions: Are there regional factors in East Asia encouraging countries to explore cross-regionalism early on? What are the most important criteria behind the cross-regional partner selection? How do cross-regional FTSs (CRTAs) influence their intra-regional trade initiatives? Through detailed country case studies from China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, we show the ways in which these governments seek to leverage their CRTAs in the pursuit of intra-regional trade integration objectives, a process that yields a much more permeated regionalism.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Permeated Regionalism in East Asia: Cross-Regional Trade Agreements in Theory and Practice....Pages 1-26
Forming a Cross-Regional Partnership: The South Korea–Chile FTA and Its Implications....Pages 27-46
A Case Study of Singapore's Bilateral and Cross-Regional Free Trade Agreements....Pages 47-69
The Japan–Mexico FTA: A Cross-Regional Step in Japan's New Trade Regionalism....Pages 71-93
Thailand's and Malaysia's Cross-Regional FTA Initiatives....Pages 95-121
China's Free Trade Negotiations: Economics, Security, and Diplomacy....Pages 123-146
Cross-Regional Trade Agreements in East Asia: Findings and Implications....Pages 147-159
Back Matter....Pages 161-167

✦ Subjects

International Economics; Regional/Spatial Science; Development Economics; Political Science