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103166
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Singapore, ISEAS Publications, 2006.
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xvi, 381p.
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9789812304001, hbk
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078849
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2007.
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This article surveys the recent initiation of free trade talks by China. Of particular interest are the motives driving this innovation, particularly as regards negotiations with distant rather than regional partners, known as cross-regional trade agreements or CRTAs. This investigation is guided by the conceptual analysis presented by Solís and Katada in this issue of Pacific Affairs.
The authors find that the initiation of cross-regional preferential trading links allows the Chinese leadership to speed up economic development, to hedge against future trade diversion in other regions of the world, to pursue domestic reform at their own chosen pace, to develop negotiating expertise in a less tense political environment, and to advance core interests in foreign economic policy and security policy by validating the concept of a peaceful rise to power. China's recent pursuit of cross-regional FTAs is thus significant not only for the economic benefits they promise but also for their enhancement of China's national power and capacity for international leadership without provoking conflict. As a supplement to China's diplomacy, cross-regional FTA negotiations must be recognized as an important new element of China's long-term international strategy
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166107
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Stephen Hoadley suggests that longer-term resolutions of fundamental disagreements in a key geo-strategic area remain elusive and are probably unachievable.
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150187
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068926
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066202
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064836
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Sep-Oct 2005.
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182270
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America's withdrawal from Afghanistan has been compared to its withdrawal from South Vietnam, and cited as two examples among many of US blunders, set-backs and losses of allies and influence since the Second World War. But there is compelling counter-evidence showing numerous US contributions to global stability and justice. The United States is still the least bad choice as a leader of liberal states to resist the current surge of authoritarianism fostered by China and Russia and illiberal political leaders and parties. It needs to stand firm on democratic values internationally by embedding the erstwhile American Century in a Liberal Century.
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069302
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151251
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155961
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Stephen Hoadley sketches the six strategic scenarios that are likely to challenge New Zealand in the coming years
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078848
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2007.
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This article surveys the free trade agreement (FTA) initiatives of three governments: Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. It examines each in a search for motives, not only for negotiating FTAs within the region but also for reaching outside Asia to find negotiating partners. It finds that the presumption of economic gain as the primary motive must be qualified because the markets of many of the extra-regional partners are relatively small in Asian terms, and their trade and investment barriers are already amongst the lowest in the world. This is especially true of New Zealand and Chile, which nevertheless are becoming popular extra-regional partners for Asian governments.
While the national and sectoral economic motives announced by the trade spokespeople for Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia are acknowledged as predominant, this article goes beyond such declarations to explore the explicit and implicit diplomatic, political and bureaucratic aims that could account more fully for these trade negotiation initiatives. In accordance with the conceptual analysis presented by Solís and Katada in this issue of Pacific Affairs, the drivers of FTAs are grouped into three broad categories: 1) economic motives; 2) security and diplomatic motives; and 3) leverage motives. Seven hypotheses derived from these categories are employed to guide this survey of recent FTA initiatives by Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, and to explore their reasons for engaging with FTA partners both outside and within the Southeast Asian region.
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128903
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129399
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