Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Research questions; The literature on AFTA; strengths and limitations; Drawing on the wider regionalism literature; The book in outline; Globalisation and economic regionalism; Conceptualising globalisation; Open regionalism: the liberal political economy interpretation; Regionalism as resistance to globalisation: legitimacy and domestic politics; Conceptual gains from the economic realist perspective on IPE; Conceptualising domestic politics in ASEAN; Conclusion.