Overview
- Describes the political economy of East Asia's cross regional preferential trade agreements and their implications for intra-regional integration dynamics
- Highlights the enduring regional barriers to integration, as well as the deliberate pursuit of CRTAs to enhance these governments' leverage over intra-regional trade negotiations
Part of the book series: The Political Economy of the Asia Pacific (PEAP)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cross Regional Trade Agreements
Book Subtitle: Understanding Permeated Regionalism in East Asia
Editors: Saori N. Katada, Mireya Solís
Series Title: The Political Economy of the Asia Pacific
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79327-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-79326-7Published: 25 August 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09819-2Published: 19 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-79327-4Published: 24 June 2008
Series ISSN: 1866-6507
Series E-ISSN: 1866-6515
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 168
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Development Economics, Political Science