1st Edition

Globalisation, Domestic Politics and Regionalism

By Helen E.S. Nesadurai Copyright 2003
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Globalisation and economic regionalism; Chapter 2 The unfolding of a regional economic cooperation project; Chapter 3 Foreign capital and open regionalism; Chapter 4 Domestic capital and developmental regionalism; Chapter 5 Re-negotiating AFTA commitments; Chapter 6 Implementation as a political process; Conclusion;

Biography

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

'A significant contribution to our understanding of the rapidly evolving global political economy.' - Richard Stubbs, Department of Political Science, McMaster Unicersity