ASEAN Economic Community A Model for Asia-wide Regional Integration [Hardcover]

The launch of the ASEAN Economic Community raises key issues: the deepening of regional trade and the associated problem of exchange rate management. This volume questions the capacity of a shallow institution to deal with complex impacts on employment and inequality. Contributors analyze ASEAN's potential and weakness in readable terms.

The launch of the ASEAN Economic Community raises key issues: the deepening of regional trade and production sharing, and the associated problem of exchange rate management. This volume questions the capacity of a shallow institution to deal with complex consequences on employment and inclusiveness, creativity and connectivity, and inequality and social cohesion. At a time when broader agreements are competing for regional leadership, contributors debate whether ASEAN can serve as a model of integration or else be diluted in wider Asian and Pacific arrangements. Approaches combine economics, history, geography, and political science to provide a clear understanding of ASEAN's potential and weaknesses in technical and non-technical but always readable terms.

Introduction: Bruno Jetin & Mia Mikic
PART I. ASEAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION IN THE CONTEXT OF EAST ASIA REGIONALISM
1. ASEAN's Imitation Economic Community: The Primacy of Domestic Political Economy; Lee Jones
2. By Chance or by Virtue? The regional economic integration in South East Asia; Jean-Rapha?l Chaponni?re, Marc Lautier
3. Trade implications of the ASEAN+ agreements for other Asian countries; Mia Mikic
4. Southeast Asian Countries in Global Production Networks; Prema-chandra Athukorala
5. Impact of monetary regimes and exchange rates on ASEAN economic integration; Nabil Aflouk, Jacques Mazier and Myoung Keun On
6. Global Value Chains and competitiveness of the integrated region: exchange rate issues; Witada Anukoonwattaka
7. Intra and Extra-regional trade costs of ASl3t