Asean Economic Community ― A Model for Asia-wide Regional Integration?

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.

Bruno Jetin is Researcher at the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC, Bangkok, Thailand) and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Brunei. He was previously Associate Professor of Economics at Sorbonne Paris Cite University, France, and Fellow Researcher at the University of Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Mia Mikic heads trade policy work in the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and coordinates ARTNeT. She has also served as Professor of International Economics at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.