Globalisation Domestic Politics and Regionalism

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. 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;