Globalisation, Domestic Politics and

This book examines the relationship between globalisation and regionalism through a detailed analysis of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) project. It analyses how the interaction between globalisation and domestic politics shaped the evolution of AFTA over the past 10 years, arguing that although AFTA was triggered primarily by the pressures of globalisation, it was a tussle between the imperatives of growth and domestic distribution that shaped the way economic cooperation unfolded and the forms it took.

Helen E. S. Nesadurai is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

List of illustrations

ix

Acknowledgements

x

List of abbreviations

xiii

Introduction

1

(2)

Research questions

3

(2)

The literature on AFTA -- strengths and limitations

5

(10)

Drawing on the wider regionalism literature

15

(3)

The book in outline

18

(6)

Globalisation and economic regionalism

24

(26)

Conceptualising globalisation

25

(7)

Open regionalism: the liberal political economy interpretation

32

(3)

Regionalism as resistance to globalisation: legitimacy and domestic politics

35

(2)

Conceptual gains from the economic realist perspective on IPE

37

(6)

Conceptualising domestic politics in ASEAN

43

(4)

Conclusion

47

(3)

The unfolding of a regional economic cooperation project: AFTA, 1991--2002

50

(28)

Ambitious commitments

50

(14)

The status of implementation

64

(12)

AFTA in perspective

76

(2)

Foreign capital and open regionalism

78

(21)

The structural power of foreign capital

79

(3)

FDI in the domestic political economy: reinforcing the structural power of foreign capital

82

(6)

Creating an alternative regional space in the Asia-Pacific for investment and production

88

(4)

AFTA: a neoliberal regionalist project?

92

(6)

Conclusion: contradictions and inconsistencies

98

(1)

Domestic capital and developmental regionalism

99

(29)

National FDI regimes in ASEAN

101

(5)

Globalisation and multilateral investment rules

106

(6)

Using the AIA as a developmental tool

112

(4)

The political importance of domestic capital in ASEAN

116

(8)

The growth imperative overwhelms: reviewing the AIA

124

(3)

Conclusion

127

(1)

Re-negotiating AFTA commitments

128

(23)

Resistance to AFTA: a general survey

128

(4)

Tariff liberalisation of petrochemicals in AFTA

132

(6)

Liberalisation of unprocessed agricultural products

138

(5)

AFTA and automobiles

143

(7)

Conclusion

150

(1)

Implementation as a political process

151

(20)

Implementation as a political process: the role of compliance bargaining

152

(2)

Compliance bargaining in AFTA

154

(4)

Institution building in AFTA: an outcome of compliance bargaining

158

(12)

Conclusion

170

(1)

Conclusion

171

(16)

Globalisation, domestic politics and AFTA

172

(2)

AFTA and the wider literature: conceptual insights on the globalisation-regionalism relationship

174

(5)

The future of ASEAN economic regionalism

179

(8)

Notes

187

(16)

References

203

(15)

Index

218

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