Initiatives of Regional Integration in Asia in Comparative Perspective

✍ Scribed by Howard Loewen, Anja Zorob

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Series: United Nations University Series on Regionalism 14
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii
Initiatives of Regional Integration in Asia in Comparative Perspective: An Introduction (Anja Zorob, Howard Loewen)....Pages 1-21
Japan and China in a Two-Hub Formation of Regional Integration in East Asia (Lurong Chen)....Pages 23-41
Regional Integration in the Middle East in the Shadow of EU and US Free Trade Initiatives (Anja Zorob)....Pages 43-81
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) – Infrastructure Development and the Prospects for the Emergence of a Security Community (Timotheus Krahl, Jörn Dosch)....Pages 83-98
Institutional Development and Institutional Interplay Within the Global Financial Regime Complex – The IMF and Regional Financial Cooperation in East Asia (Howard Loewen)....Pages 99-117
Shanghai Cooperation Organization: China, Russia, and Regionalism in Central Asia (Ishtiaq Ahmad)....Pages 119-135
China’s Rising Power in Southeast Asia and Its Impact on Regional Institution-Building: Who Is Leading Whom? (Marco Bünte)....Pages 137-154
Comparing Modes of Regional Economic Governance: The Gulf Co-operation Council and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Fred H. Lawson)....Pages 155-175
East Asian Regionalization and North Korea: From Confrontation to Cooperation (Rüdiger Frank)....Pages 177-200
State Failure and Regional Containment: The Case of Afghanistan (George Gavrilis)....Pages 201-210

✦ Subjects

Political Science and International Relations; Political Science; Regional and Cultural Studies; International Economics