The Political Context of Economic Cooperation in Asia: The Relation between Trade Integration and Security Rivalries

E. Sridharan
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E. Sridharan: E. Sridharan, Academic Director, University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI), New Delhi. E-mail: upiasi@del2.vsnl.net.in

Millennial Asia, 2014, vol. 5, issue 2, 129-136

Abstract: This article lays out the overarching context of economic cooperation in Asia and discusses the two big questions: the strategic consequences of economic integration in Asia and the economic consequences of the lack of a security consensus in Asia. The rise of China is central to both. China’s economic rise has led to the rapid growth of Asian economic integration as well as given rise to security rivalries, both land and maritime, all around its borders. The article examines whether economic integration will mitigate security rivalries or whether the absence of a regional security arrangement instead of the hub-and-spokes US-centred security system in the Asia-Pacific will impede the growth of economic and political cooperation. Much depends on the unpredictable and evolving interaction of Chinese behaviour and the US and Asian responses to it.

Keywords: Economic integration; security consensus; FTAs; FDI; plurilateral (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1177/0976399614541188

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