Political Economy of East Asian Economic Integration

The Process of the Rcep Negotiations and Beyond
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-62400-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 626 g

Reihe: Routledge-ERIA Studies in Development Economics

This book studies the influence of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on the East Asia region and the rest of the world from an international relations perspective.

Analysing the history and negotiation process of RCEP through a collection of written interviews from negotiators involved in the RCEP, this book helps readers understand the origins, proceedings, and characteristics of mega-regional trade integration. Individual case studies analyse the RCEP negotiations from the viewpoint of various states or economic blocs, such as ASEAN, Australia, China, Japan, the European Union (EU), and the United States. Several chapters also illustrate the dynamism of the regional architecture in East Asia concerning other regional movements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Comprehensive and Progressive TPP (CPTPP), Belt and Road Initiative, and the newly launched Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF). In sum, the chapters illustrate how RCEP member countries and non-member countries try to utilise/maximise their national interests.

This book will interest researchers of international relations, international politics, international economics, and international political economy, as well as policymakers and negotiators responsible for future regional economic integration projects.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iwasaki, Fusanori

Oikawa, Keita

Urata, Shujiro

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter-wise list of Tables and Figures

List of contributors

Chapter 1: Overview, Literature Review, and Policy Implications

  Fusanori Iwasaki, Keita Oikawa, and Shujiro Urata

Chapter 2: Road to Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Establishment

  Fusanori Iwasaki, Keita Oikawa, and Shujiro Urata

Chapter 3: Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: Economic Backgrounds of ASEAN and Its Dialogue Partners

  Keita Oikawa, Fusanori Iwasaki, and Shujiro Urata

Chapter 4: Centrality and Community: ASEAN in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

  Soo Yeon Kim

Chapter 5: Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, ASEAN’s Agency, and the Role of ASEAN Members in Shaping the Regional Economic Order

  Huong Le Thu

Chapter 6: Australia’s Interests in East Asia’s Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

  Shiro Armstrong

Chapter 7: China and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: An Economic and Political Perspective

  Zhang Yunling

Chapter 8: Japan and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)

  Mie Oba

Chapter 9: The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement and Europe: Impact and Implications

  Hanns Günther Hilpert

Chapter 10: Heyday of Asian Regionalism? The Implications of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership for the United States

  Mireya Solís

Chapter 11: The Role of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) in Promoting the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)

  Fusanori Iwasaki and Keita Oikawa

Chapter 12: The Real Voices of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Negotiators

 Edited by Fusanori Iwasaki and Keita Oikawa

Über Autor(innen)

Fusanori Iwasaki is Research Fellow at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). He is also Consulting Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) in Japan.

Keita Oikawa is Research Fellow at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). He is also Consulting Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) in Japan.

Shujiro Urata is Senior Research Fellow at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). He is also Professor Emeritus, Waseda University, and Chairman Emeritus of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).