CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Lempkowski, Mateusz Marcin |
|---|---|
| Title | Trade and Regionalism: The European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in a comparative perspective |
| Summary | With a growing number of regional organizations, integration tendencies in different regions have been gaining salience. Nevertheless, the field lacks detailed comparative analyses. Most studies are usually focused on exploring and providing detailed explanation of one particular setting. The main aim of this thesis is to conduct a comparative research of two somewhat different regional organizations. Firstly, the European Union as the most developed integration project in the world, by many seen as a model of integration, and secondly, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the most viable regional organization in that part of the globe. Whilst, at face value, both organizations do not seem to have much in common, there is a considerable amount of evidence that ASEAN might be emulating, copying, or echoing the European experience. Therefore, this work aims to explore, firstly, the evidence by looking at ASEAN’s institutional design and comparing it to the European counterpart. From, in order to answer the research question, it will examine EU-ASEAN trade relations as the possible cause of the observed developments in Southeast Asian integration. The major findings of this thesis are twofold. Firstly, similarities in design between ASEAN and the EU are found. While they do not indicate that ASEAN is copying or emulating the EU, they provide the support for the claim that ASEAN looks at the EU and is introduces similar solutions. Secondly, it is found that economic relations and trade have been the strongest linking factors between those two organizations. |
| Supervisor | Youngmi Kim |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/lempkowski_mateusz.pdf |
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