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FTAs IN ASIA-EUROPE RELATIONS |
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Monday, 10 March 2008 17:17 |
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Alfredo C. Robles, Jr.
De La Salle University – Manila
13 March 2007
This is the paper of Alfredo C. Robles,Jr., Professor of International Studies, in cooperation with the Institute for Popular Democracy. He is author of THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERREGIONAL RELATIONS: ASEAN AND THE EU (Ashgate, 2004), THE ASIA-EUROPE MEETING: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF INTERREGIONALISM (Routledge,2008), and "EU FTA Negotiations with SADC and Mercosur: Integration into the World Economy or Market Access for EU Firms?" THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY,29:1 (February 2008), pp.181-97.
1. The European Commission decided to propose launching FTA negotiations with ASEAN in October 2006 only after its strategies within ASEM and in the ASEAN-EU context failed to achieve their goals, and individual ASEAN members had already concluded FTAs with Japan and/or the US. The process leading up to the decision to negotiate an FTA deserves closer scrutiny, as do the ideas of the ASEAN-EU Vision Group Report and the European Commission regarding the rationale of an FTA.
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