The Political Economy of Interregional Relations ASEAN and the EU - The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms Series

Using ASEAN-EU relations as a case study, The Political Economy of Interregional Relations raises the broader question of whether a new level of international relations, the interregional level, is emerging. In order to answer this question, this perceptive book draws on the recent literature on regionalism and on the relationship between social structure and human agency. - - The book highlights a number of topics, including: - - - the shifting of production by some Japanese firms to Southeast Asia in response to EU antidumping measures - - evaluations by the EU, independent consultants and Southeast Asian NGOs of successful and unsuccessful development projects - - the ASEAN and EU consensus to ignore human rights violations in East Timor - - ASEAN-EU programs to encourage investment by European firms in Southeast Asia - - Based on previously neglected official documents (for example, EU antidumping investigations), NGO reports on development projects, scholarly work in other European languages (notably German and French) and interviews in Europe and Southeast Asia, the book will greatly interest political economists and scholars of ASEAN-EU relations. -