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ID179540
Title ProperWhen trade and foreign policy collide
Other Title InformationIndonesia in Doha development round
LanguageENG
AuthorKarim, Moch Faisal
Summary / Abstract (Note)This article examines Indonesia’s conflicting roles in global trade governance, particularly in the Doha Development Round. This article argues that multilateral trade governance is utilised by Indonesian foreign policymakers to be the arena for Indonesia’s aspiration to exercise a greater role at the global level. This aspiration is reflected in its support towards liberalisation agenda at the global level. However, the commitments made, as well as the rhetoric calling for a more liberalised multilateral trading system within the Round, are not in line with Indonesia’s protectionist-leaning domestic trade policies. This condition, arguably, is the result of the co-optation of trade policy in Doha Round by the Indonesian foreign policy agenda. While the Ministry of Trade has full authority to formulate trade negotiation position, Indonesia’s aspiration for international status pursued by foreign policymakers has significantly influenced its trade policy agenda in the Doha Round. Thus, Indonesia’s behaviour in the Doha Round can only be interpreted as role-playing in which Indonesia ‘play the role’ to enhance its international status rather than based its position on coherent domestic economic interest.
`In' analytical NotePacific Review Vol. 34, No.4; Jul 2021: p.605-632
Journal SourcePacific Review Vol: 34 No 4
Key WordsWTO ;  Indonesia ;  Trade Policy ;  Foreign Policy ;  Doha Development Round


 
 
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