The Study of European Union Pushing Free Trade Agreement with Association of South-East Asian Nation

• Main Authors: Ting-Yi Ju, 朱庭頤
• Other Authors: 沈玄池
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00451481839956725615

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 國際政治研究所 === 97 === In the end of the twentieth centuries, under the pressure of globalization, region pursuit of trade liberalization through the signing of free trade agreement (FTA) or regional trade agreement with each other (RTA) and integration into a more dynamic international economic system has become a popular trend. Thus, the object of this thesis is European Union (EU). Through pushing free trade agreement with the Association of South-East Asian Nation (ASEAN), the EU attempts to maintain a tighter bilateral relationship. The main research approach of this thesis is new regionalism. It provides an analytic framework to observe dynamic relationship between EU and ASEAN. The EU push for FTA with ASEAN is a result of internal and external factors. Internal factors include Common Commercial Policy, Development Policy and Free Trade Agreement Policy. External factors include the frustration of WTO Doha round, the attack of East-Asia economic regional integration, the limit of Asia-Europe Meeting and the competition of America in the East-Asia. The mutual interactions of these factors correspond to three characteristics of new regionalism, namely extroverted and open regionalism, north-south regionalism and multiple regionalism; these construct the complicated motives underlying EU’s push for FTA with ASEAN. The ASEAN-EU FTA has potential characteristics of new regionalism for the future.