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01.12.06
O-2006/29: Towards Establishing a Research Institute for Asian Integration - Introducing European Experiences
By: Brigid Gavin
Over the past five years, there has been a big debate on how to further Asianintegration. Visions and plans have emerged from the East Asian Vision Group (2001),the findings of the East Asian Study Group published in 2002, and the East AsianSummit in Kuala Lumpur in 2005. The time now seems ripe for political leaders tomake concrete proposals to transform the policy debate into political reality.
The process of deeper integration in East Asia needs to be anchored in intellectualdebate. The establishment of a Research Institute for Asian Integration will provideintellectual inputs to assist further economic integration. The goal of academic researchon Asian integration is to produce rigorous scientific research on the multipledimensions of the integration process in a global context.1 Such research is vital forinformed policy making at national, regional and global levels. It is also essential topromote informed public debate on the pros and cons of the regional integrationprocess.
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The author critically evaluates the proposal for a new analytical model aimed atevaluating ex ante the conditions to form free trade areas among groups of countries(the Trade Liberalization Evaluation –TLE- Methodology, see Ruiz... By: Philippe De Lombaerde
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The assessment of human security (HS) challenges and prospects in Central America (CA) presents acomplex and contradictory picture. The region has been quite tumultuous during the past three decades,and the legacy of war, social... By: Philippe De Lombaerde and Matthew Norton
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Deze tekst presenteert een samenvatting van een onderzoek uitgevoerd door de Universiteitvan de Verenigde Naties (UNU-CRIS; Brugge) en het Instituut voor Internationaal Recht vande KUL. Het onderzoek liep van 1 januari 2005 tot... By: Jan Wouters et al.
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The paper examines the relationships between culture and regional cooperation/integration and theirimplications for human security and development. While culture can be the content of regionalcooperation, regional cooperation and... By: Nikki Slocum-Bradley
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This paper extends the methodological toolbox of measures of the regional concentrationof industries and the industrial specialization of regions. It, first, defines the class of disproportionalitymeasures of concentration and... By: Frank Bickenbach and Eckhardt Bode
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This paper aims to present an overview of the EU-UN relations and map the actualand possible EU-UN relationships and their implications for global governance. First,a general overview is presented of how the EU and the UN... By: Luk Van Langenhove, Isabella Torta and Tania Felicio
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On 28 and 29 April 2006, the United Nations University Programme on comparative RegionalIntegration Studies (UNU-CRIS) and the United Nations Department for Political Affairs (UNDPA)convened a seminar to consider the evolving... By: Tania Felicio
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South-South trade agreements are proliferating: Developing countries signed 70 newagreements between 1990 and 2003. Yet the impact of these agreements is largely unknown.In this paper, we focus on the static effects of... By: Ana Maria Mayda and Chad Steinberg
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Historical evidence suggests that development and trade are co-varying variables. Whichone leads the other is the big question that has been debated at length in political economy.Trade isolated as an end in itself had never been... By: Emel Memis and Manuel F. Montes
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This paper examines how the EU as an international actor contributed to the creation andsustenance of order in world politics since the end of the Cold War. To this end, it advancesan operationalization of order that takes the... By: Erwin van Veen
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This paper is an attempt to assess the possible trade diversion from the Russian Federation causedby the 2004 EU enlargement to 10 Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs). Left out ofthe club, Russia has been confronted... By: Aurora Mordonu
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Economically, the last fifty years, the world has witnessed an unparalleled growth andtransformation. Economic development has been spurred by the opening up and ensuingexpansion of world trade and the dramatic reduction in... By: Luc Soete
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The social dimension of European Union has sometimes mockingly been called the'Cinderella' of integration as a way of signaling its lowly status and the lack of regardin which it is held in the European family. Strangely, the... By: Monica Threlfall
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The aim of this symposium was to analyse the social dimensions of regionalintegration policies. It was suggested that policy orientated social science could helpidentify the potential advantages for countries of taking further... By: Bob Deacon, Nicola Yeates and Luk Van Langenhove
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This paper explores the nature of and relationship between ‘identities’ and‘legitimacy’. First, an analytical distinction is made between expressions of identityand expressions of attitudes about Europe and the European Union. A... By: Nikki Slocum-Bradley
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Caricom as a small regional trading agreement is characterised by economies withdiffering degrees of development. This paper reviews the differing economic attributesof these various Caricom states and then discusses in detail... By: Roger Hosein and Clive Thomas
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In this article, the authors analyse the characteristics of the new regionalism in LatinAmerica since the late eighties. It is shown that, on the one hand, it is related to theconsiderable multiplication of the number of regional... By: Philippe De Lombaerde and Luis Jorge Garay
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With the support of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Luxembourg, theLuxembourg Institute for European and International Studies (LIEIS) and theClingendael Institute of International Relations convened a seminar on... By: Adrian Pabst
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Mainly since the mid-1990s, the international community set its eyes on theColombian conflict. The growing interest relates to a series of factors, includingchanges in the international political agenda, a renewed interest of the... By: Philippe De Lombaerde, Geert Haghebaert, Socorro Ramirez and An Vranckx
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Following the EU-Latin America and Caribbean Summit of Heads of States and Government, held in Guadalajara in May 2004, it was agreed that the start of negotiations on an Association Agreement between the EU and CAN would be... By: Ernoko Adiwasito, Philippe De Lombaerde and Giulia Pietrangeli
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First let us define social policy. Social policy may be defined in a number ofways that complement each other. Broadly speaking, it refers to “collectiveinterventions directly affecting transformation in social welfare,... By: Nicola Yeates and Bob Deacon
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Globalization is one of the major phenomena challenging the existing worldorder based upon sovereign states. Societies are more and more confrontedwith global issues linked to international trade and development, environmentand... By: Luk Van Langenhove, Isabella Torta and Ana-Cristina Costea
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The number of migrant labor in the ASEAN, predominant in low-skilled work and manyof whom are undocumented, reaches two-three million workers in the big receivingcountries of Thailand and Malaysia alone. Increased FDI flows are... By: Jenina Joy Chavez
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Globalization is one of the most important processes involving contemporaryhumanity, and, significantly, for at least fifteen years it has been one of the phenomena mostthoroughly studied by the social sciences. Not surprisingly,... By: Marco Caselli
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This paper explores the relationships between peace, security and regional integration,presents current global developments and challenges on regional and globalapproaches to peace and security, and recommends concrete measures... By: Nikki Slocum-Bradley and Tania Felicio
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The paradox of the Middle East has been captured by its description as ‘a regionwithout regionalism’ (Aarts, 1999). Despite the intensification of regionalism acrossthe globe over the past two decades, the Middle East has been... By: Bezen Balamir Coskun
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Regionalisation is the process through which governmental polities, civic society andthe corporate sector share interests and combine resources to agreed common ends atthe regional, as distinct from the national or global, level.... By: Kennedy Graham
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Much ink has flowed on the question of the relationship between regionalism andmultilateralism. There is still, however, no definitive answer. So the debate goes on. Isregionalism a substitute or a complement to multilateralism?... By: Brigid Gavin
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Recent decades have seen a fast growth in regional and sub-regional organisations, together with a(slower) increasing recognition by the international community of the need for greater involvement ofregional agencies in peace and... By: Tania Felicio
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Two themes have been central to recent work on international trade and investmentagreements; the scope and legitimacy of the WTO, in particular with regard to the so-calledbehind the border issues, and the growth of regional... By: Steve Woolcock
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We live in a disarranged world. In a world population of 6.1 billion people, the richest 20 percent have 74 percent of the world income, while the poorest 20 percent onlyhave 2 percent of it. In 2000, more than 1 billion people... By: Rodrigo Tavares
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Regional integration processes are complex social processes; they are expressions ofworldwide and long-term trends towards larger scales and higher levels of mobility inhuman activity, and – it is believed – they have the... By: Philippe De Lombaerde
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If one looks to the world from an international relations’ perspective, it is tempting toanalyse the present situation in terms of a clash between the advocates ofmultilateralism and those that foster bilateralism. The former... By: Luk Van Langenhove
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After a first generation of regionalism that focussed primarily upon trade andeconomic integration, a second generation – often referred to as ‘new regionalism’ –broadened integration to internal policies and regulations. Today,... By: Luk Van Langenhove and Ana-Cristina Costea
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In this paper it will be argued that we are currently witnessing a transition from theclassical Westphalian world order to a world order where regions – next to states –play a central role and where processes of regional... By: Luk Van Langenhove and Ana-Cristina Costea
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The destructive earthquake and tsunami crisis that have dramatically stroke the South of Asia on the 26th of December 2004 have brought into question the creation of a regional tsunami warning systemin the Indian Ocean.
This... By: Ana-Cristina Costea and Tania Felicio
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Post-Cold War uncertainties about the future global threats have faded over the past fewyears. Terrorism, organized crime, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,HIV/AIDS, pandemic diseases, weak states, and conflicts over... By: Kati Suominen
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La Unión Europea (UE) es un animal político único en la historia y engendra unsistema de relaciones exteriores también sin equivalente. Como en muchasocasiones se piensa y se discute, equivocadamente, dicho sistema como si fuera... By: Ramon Torrent and José Ramón Francia
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La idea de una asociación estratégica entre los países de América Latina y la Unión Europea, tiene unode sus pilares centrales en el desarrollo de un marco que permita profundizar las relaciones económicas birregionales.
Al... By: Félix Peña
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The European Union (EU) is the most important trading partner of the African,Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, absorbing more than one third of their total exports in 2002. Between 1975 and 2000 trade relations between the... By: Geert Laporte
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The task of analysing European society may be approached from many angles. Theone chosen here is a global comparative perspective, an effort to step outside thetempting but myopic and often misleading familiarity of inside... By: Göran Therborn
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It has been argued that the proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) since the 1990s has beenaccompanied by the design and implementation of less transparent, more restrictive and oftendivergent rules of origin (ROs).... By: Luis Jorge Garay and Philippe De Lombaerde
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This paper analyses the role of infrastructure on the Andean Community trade patterns. Three distinct but related gravity models of bilateral trade are used. The first model aims at identifying the importance of the Preferential... By: Gina E. Acosta Rojas, Germán G. Calfat & Renato G. Flôres Jr.
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The authors present a quantitative evaluation of the possible effects of a partial free tradeagreement (FTA) with the US on the Colombian economy. For this purpose, a generalequilibrium model is used representing the functioning... By: Clara Patricia Martin and Juan Mauricio Ramirez
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Al iniciar el siglo XXI, el regionalismo latinoamericano se encuentra en un punto crítico queno permite visualizar fácilmente su futuro. Diferentes escenarios parecen posibles. Variasnegociaciones, en diferentes niveles y que... By: Philippe De Lombaerde
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