ASEAN+3
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Regional Community Building in East Asia: Countries in Focus | Compiles articles relating to political-security, economic and socio-cultural perspectives of all ASEAN+3 members, covering Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Japan and South Korea. Highlights country positioning, regional participation, regional unity and diversity. Revisits progress of Brunei, Cambodia and Myanmar's involvement in ASEAN and ASEAN+3. Mentions Indonesia's ...Continue Reading |
English | 94140 | |
ASEAN Community and Managing Traditional and Non-Traditional Security | Compiles 7 articles with case studies of Southeast and Northeast Asia relations to examine challenges and opportunities of ASEAN integration and implications for Korea, including ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC) and non-traditional security, ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), and ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community aspects. Argues that the APSC differs from previous efforts as it focuses on building rule-based community. Criticizes that the A ...Continue Reading |
English | 93689 | |
Chulalongkorn Journal of Economics | Compiles five articles on the Thai economy and Asia-Pacific region. Studies carbon emissions and economic development in East Asia by a macroeconometric inquiry. Presents an assessment of rural residents' health-related quality of life in Liangcheng country, China. Explores expatriate happiness in Thailand. Looks at ASEAN initiatives to broaden Free Trade Agreements with East Asia. Includes an article on self-control against half-intuitive re ...Continue Reading | English | 88621 | |
Transformation of Security-Oriented Institutions Cases of ASEAN, ECOWAS, and OAU/AU | Koga, Kei | Reviews academic literatures on international relations, comparative politics, and evolutionary biology fields by categorizing into three approaches: structure-focused, agent-focused, and structure-agent interaction approaches. Discusses detailed definition of Institutions and Security-Oriented Institutions (SOIs), types of SOIs, types of institutional transformation, three hypotheses of institutional transformation, and methodologies, including ...Continue Reading | English | 88348 |
Does Increased Per Capita Trade Lead to Human Development? -- A Study of the ASEAN Countries, China, Japan and Korea (ASEAN Plus Three) | Deng, Rui | Examines the direct relationship between human development and per capita trade. Hypothesizes that the increase in per capita trade is positively correlated with the enhancement of human development, measured by the UNDP Human Development Index. Uses panel data covering the ASEAN Plus Three countries from 1990 to 2011, adopting Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) model with country and year controls for quantitative analysis. Confirms the positive rel ...Continue Reading | English | 87943 |
Rice Trade and Price Volatility: Implications on ASEAN and Global Food Security | Clarete, Ramon L. | Shows the thinness of rice trade relative to wheat and maize. Highlights the contrasting price volatility and tradability relations for wheat and maize, which display a positive correlation, and for rice, which show an inverse relation. Focuses on ASEAN, which hosts the world's biggest rice exporters and rice importers. Uses the Granger causality tests to determine correlation. Finds that very low global trading activity in rice that tends to ...Continue Reading | English | 87916 |
Economic Governance: What Can the EU and ASEAN Learn From Each Other After the Economic Crisis? | Blizkovsky, Petr | Studies the policy responses to economic crises in ASEAN and the EU. Addresses three issues: the financial crisis of 1997-1998 in Southeast Asia, and the EU's financial crisis of 2008 followed by the sovereign debt crisis policy adjustment actions in both regions in the area of economic coordination and areas of mutual policy inspiration for both regions. Notes that both crises were regionally risk-intensive but that their natures were differ ...Continue Reading | English | 87914 |
ASEAN Memorandam, Revised Edition 2013 | Traces the evolution of ASEAN and its membership expansion. Describes developmental cooperation during 1967-1996, ASEAN vision 2020, ASEAN charter, and the Bali Concord I-III. Looks at the goals of ASEAN Community (AC) including ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC), ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), and ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC). Provides information on bilateral relations between ASEAN and each country, namely Australia, Canada ...Continue Reading | Thai | 87682 | |
The 2030 Architecture of Association of Southeast Asian Nations Free Trade Agreements | Suthiphand Chirathivat | Investigates and analyzes the present status, potential, and prospects of ASEAN free trade agreements (FTAs). Begins with a review of the historical evolution of ASEAN FTAs, capturing the achievements of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement and the efforts meant to lead to a further step of deeper integration i.e. the realization of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015. Offers a view on how the grouping adopted an extension of ASEAN FTAs beyond ...Continue Reading | English | 87493 |
ASEAN: Portrait of a Community | Portrays each of the ASEAN member states in the form of watercolor artistry by Thai artist Taveepong Limapornvanich. Depicts, in various colors, each country's national landmarks, cultural performances, architectural heritage, popular destinations, indigenous peoples, and contemporary leaders. Offers insights into the ties that bind the ten countries and drive the shared dream of one community. Contains a short introduction outlining the found ...Continue Reading | English | 87423 | |
Japan and the Origins of ASEAN+6: An Agent-Structure Analysis | Terada, Takashi | Explores the reasons behind Japan's interest in the promotion of ASEAN+6 as an 'expanded East Asian' regional concept despite the existence of ASEAN+3 as an effective framework for regional cooperation. Reviews the background of new regional concept of ASEAN+6. Examines the causal factors behind Japan's advocacy of ASEAN+6, focusing on the effect of the changes in the regional structure on Japan. Presents the internal division of Japanese stat ...Continue Reading | English | 87278 |
21st ASEAN Summit: Issues to be Monitored | Deals with the 21st ASEAN Summit and concurrent meetings that will be held during 18-20 November 2012 in Cambodia. Summarizes main items of agenda regarding ASEAN's goal of becoming an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). Covers the progress toward the Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ) project, ASEAN+3, and negotiations toward the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). | Thai | 87065 | |
ASEAN 2015 | Kulanan Khanthik | Introduces ASEAN community in terms of ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC), ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), and ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC). Presents details from the dialogue on ASEAN 2015: Politics, Security, and the Future . Deals with the impacts from regional grouping to ASEAN Community, and the concept between ASEAN and other countries such as ASEAN+3, ASEAN+6. Mentions Schengen agreement in terms of joint border, joint ...Continue Reading | Thai | 87050 |
Same Bed, Different Dreams: Prospects and Challenges for ASEAN+'X' Forums | Min Gyo Koo | Explores the prospects and challenges for ASEAN+ X forums: ASEAN+1, +3, +8 (or the East Asian Summit). Examines the U.S.'s new appetite for Asia-Pacific minilateralism centered on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP). Reviews the security-embedded economic relations during the Cold War period under the U.S. hegemonic leadership and explains East Asia's responses to the de-securitization of U. ...Continue Reading | English | 87039 |
Russia-ASEAN Relations: New Directions | Consists of eleven articles concerning Russia-ASEAN relations which divide into three parts such as overview of ASEAN-Russia relations, East Asian Community, and energy condition in East Asia. Reviews relations among Russia, ASEAN, and East Asia in which ASEAN is a central role of the relations. Presents current state of Russia-ASEAN trade and economic relations. Studies the prospects of East Asian Community concerning the general development o ...Continue Reading | English | 86938 | |
Three-Year ASEAN-Canada Policy Research Programme: A Proposal | Barichello, Richard R. | Identifies areas that could broaden cooperation and benefit both ASEAN and Canada. Studies bilateral relations between Canada and ASEAN concerning the feasibility of an ASEAN-Canada FTA, migration and trade in service, human resource, and the role of Canada's official development assistance. Presents roles of ASEAN and Canada in global forum. Describes several benefits of ASEAN-Canada FTA that could boost bilateral trade, and push East Asian r ...Continue Reading | English | 86922 |
The ASEAN Economic Community and East Asian Economic Integration | Taeyoon Kim | Defines the role of ASEAN in making a contribution toward East Asian economic integration. Reviews the ASEAN economic community (AEC), focusing on AEC blueprint, ACE's meaning to ASEAN society, and the current regional economic frameworks such as the ASEAN-China FTA, ASEAN-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership, ASEAN-Korea FTA, ASEAN+3 and East Asian Summit in order to find some implications on East Asian economic integration. Gives overviews ...Continue Reading | English | 86915 |
The Utility and Kimits of the 'European Model' for the Regional Institutionalization of East Asia | Higgott, Richard | Reviews literature of European Model for the regional institutionalization of East Asia. Discusses the current state of the theory and practice of regionalism in comparative perspective. Analyzes the ways of relevant contemporary European institutional cooperation for understanding the way forward in East Asia. Outlines important lessons from and for East Asia with the framework of 'the new regionalism', and the importance of leadership to the ...Continue Reading | English | 86914 |
APEC: The Future Prospects for a Bridge Spanning the Pacific | Nakajima, Tomoyoshi | Discusses the future of APEC, which is a unique international organization linking East Asia and the United States. Gives overview of APEC since its establishment and its development towards 'Open Regionalism'. Studies the changes of the US involvement in APEC in four periods of times from 1989 to the present times. Analyzes the forming of Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) and its relations with APEC, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TP ...Continue Reading | English | 86912 |
Middle Powers and the Building of Regional Order: Australia and South Korea Compared | Hundt, David | Compares two middle powers, Australia and the Republic of Korea during the transition to a new regional order in the Asia-Pacific as both countries have been allies of the United States. Examines how Australia and South Korea have contributed to the building of a new region order. Reviews the concept of order and the variant of order which ASEAN-the self-appointed vanguard of regionalism in the Asian-Pacific-has proposed. Considers the role of FT ...Continue Reading | English | 86910 |