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ASEAN’s Economic Community: ASEAN Way or Beijing’s Way?

In: Southeast Asia and the ASEAN Economic Community

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  • David Martin Jones

    (University of London
    International Organization for Migration (IOM))

  • Sarah Choong Ee Mei

    (University of London
    International Organization for Migration (IOM))

Abstract

This chapter assesses the effectiveness of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) process in establishing a regional economic community. It suggests that intra- and extra-ASEAN economic practice reveals that its practice of nonbinding consensus inhibits deeper integration either within ASEAN or the wider East Asian region. Thus, whilst the official view of ASEAN emphasizes its political role and the informal, unstructured, cooperative and consensus-oriented character of the organization, at the quotidian level of policy formulation and implementation, the organization remains an essentially intergovernmental one, dealing primarily with trade and economic issues and dominated by member state bureaucracies. The intergovernmental practice that the community norms paradoxically reinforce undermines the official rhetoric of community and regional identity building.

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  • David Martin Jones & Sarah Choong Ee Mei, 2019. "ASEAN’s Economic Community: ASEAN Way or Beijing’s Way?," Springer Books, in: Roderick Macdonald (ed.), Southeast Asia and the ASEAN Economic Community, chapter 0, pages 421-453, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-19722-3_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-19722-3_13
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