CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Alcazar III, Antonio Salvador Mesalucha |
|---|---|
| Title | Diffusing Trade and Investment Policy Preferences through Transnational Commercial Networks in Southeast Asia: A tale of "Europeanization beyond Europe" in the Philippines? |
| Summary | Extant research on the notion of Europeanization has been conventionally limited to exploring the transformative power of the European Union to induce policy change within its own membership area and neighborhood. While systematic efforts have extended the research agenda beyond the EU’s immediate geopolitico-economic sphere of influence, the “Europeanization beyond Europe” literature, particularly concerning the Southeast Asian region, tends to put emphasis on whether the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has learned or drawn lessons from the EU’s experience in regional integration. This specific posturing has, therefore, arguably marginalized alternative ways of looking at the EU as a direct or indirect policy influencer in Southeast Asia—a region whose strategic importance to EU interests has increasingly been in the radar screen of European policymakers and private sector elites. This thesis attempts to partly address this empirical gap by analyzing whether and to what extent pro-EU agents affect domestic policy change in line with EU trade and investment policy preferences in Southeast Asia. This contribution finds that a number of implemented or proposed reforms in the Philippines across horizontal and vertical policy areas could be traced back to the advocacy actions of European transnational commercial networks operating under one of the EU’s programmatic approaches aimed at helping EU businesses internationalize towards ASEAN markets. |
| Supervisor | Kim, Youngmi |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/alcazar_antonio.pdf |
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