Europe and South-East Asia: Shifting from Diplomacy to Unilateralism

Author: Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, Hanna Deringer, Danny Murty

Price FREE Publisher European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) Publication date 28 April 2019 ISBN

Publication synopsis The postponement of the planned 'strategic partnership' between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the EU highlights deep concerns and divisions for opening up in the relationship. The EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA), and Investment Partnership Agreement (IPA), stand alone as a success for EU-ASEAN trade relations, in an otherwise troubled landscape. Bilateral trade agreements with Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand remain frozen or unratified for multiple non-trade reasons, often stemming from domestic politics.

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