1st Edition

Political Economy of East Asian Economic Integration The Process of the RCEP Negotiations and Beyond

Edited By Fusanori Iwasaki, Keita Oikawa, Shujiro Urata Copyright 2025
322 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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).