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This work is a study of the politics of economic regionalism with special reference to East Asia. Regionalism is a very important phenomenon in the contemporary global economic system, which is situated between multilateralism at one end and nationalism at the other in terms of attitude and policy orientation of nation-states. While regionalism might be manifested in different forms in different regions, it generally conveys an idea that nations and peoples in a specific international region express a common sense of identity and pursue a common objective of “greater coherence” through “structures, processes and arrangements … in terms of economic, political, security, socio-cultural and other kinds of linkages.”1
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C. M. Dent, East Asian Regionalism (London and New York: Routledge, 2008), p.7.
N. D. Palmer, The New Regionalism in Asia and the Pacific (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1991), p.12.
F. Soderbaum, “African Regionalism and EU-African Interregionalism,” in Mario Telo (ed.), European Union and New Regionalism: Regional Actors and Global Governance in a Post-Hegemonic Era, 2nd edition (Aldershot, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007), p.187.
For more discussion of “old” and “new” regionalism, also see B. Hettne, “Beyond the ‘New’ Regionalism,” New Political Economy, vol.10, no.4 (December 2005) 543–71;
J. Wunderlich, Regionalism, Globalisation and International Order: Europe and Southeast Asia (Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007).
B. M. Russett, International Regions and International System: A Study in Political Ecology (Chicago, IL: Rand McNally & Company, 1967), p.11.
K. G. Cai, The Political Economy of East Asia: Regional and National Dimensions (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp.2–3.
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Cai, K.G. (2010). Introduction. In: The Politics of Economic Regionalism. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277267_1
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