Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
38,418
result(s) for
"International integration"
Sort by:
Assessing the Benefits of the ASEAN+6 Single Window for ASEAN Members
The ASEAN+6 Single Window (ASW+6) in this study refers to the geographic expansion of the ASEAN Single Window (ASW) to enable cross-border electronic exchange of trade-related data and documents among ASEAN member states and six FTA partners, namely, Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea. The ASW is part of ASEAN's trade facilitation reform to reduce intraregional trade costs and time.This study considers cross-border paperless trade measures to represent the implementation of ASW+6, using data from the UN Global Survey on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation in 2019. The simulation analyses reveal that the ASW+6 has significant potential to reduce times required to export and import, and to boost trade in ASEAN and its FTA partners.Partial implementation of cross-border paperless trade measures would imply an increase in ASEAN's exports of US102 billion annually. Under a more ambitious scenario of full implementation of cross-border paperless trade, the export gain for ASEAN would be US199 billion annually. At the same time, the time required to export would fall by anything between 19 to 98 per cent, depending on the reform scenario considered.Trade gains from a full-fledged ASW+6 have not yet been reaped: even strong performers such as Singapore, Australia and New Zealand have areas for improvements, and weaker performers such as Cambodia and Laos need to make significant progress to catch up with the rest of the region, and deepen their mutual trade integration.The sequence of expanding the ASW to FTA partners may begin with countries that are major sources of ASEAN's export gains identified in this study and those that have expressed their political will to move in that direction. These are Japan and South Korea. The ASW should then be enlarged to remaining FTA partners, especially China and India.While trade
gains from ASW+6 are substantial, the implementation costs can also be significant due to different regulatory requirements across ASEAN+6 countries. Aid for trade and capacity-building to support the reform process have to be an integral part for the design of ASW+6.
eBook
Narrating European society
Trenz introduces a sociological perspective on European integration by looking at different accounts of Europeanization as society building. He observes how Europeanization unfolds in ongoing practices and discourses through which social relations among the Europeans are redefined and re-embedded. The chapters describe how the project of European integration has been powerfully launched in postwar Europe as a normative venture that comprises polity and society building, how this project became ingrained in every-day life histories and experiences of the Europeans, how this project became contested and confronted resistances and, ultimately, how it went through its most severe crisis. A sociology of European integration is thus outlined along four main themes or narratives: first, the elite processes of identity construction and the framework of norms and ideas that carries such a construction (together with notions of European identity, EU citizenship, etc.); second, the socialization of European citizens, processes of banal Europeanism, and social transnationalism through everyday cross-border exchanges; third, the mobilization of resistance and Euroskepticism as a fundamental and collectively mobilized opposition to processes of Europeanization; and fourth, the political sociology of crisis, linked not only to financial turmoil but also, more fundamentally, to a legitimation crisis that affects Europe and the democratic nation-state.
eBook
Thank you M. Monnet
This book collects contributions by Richard T. Griffiths on the history of European integration, some published for the first time in English. The essays range in chronology from the early experiences with the Marshall Plan to the difficulties and opportunities for the EFTA countries afforded by association with the EEC in the 1970s and 80s. The book interprets European integration far wider than simply the current European Union and its forerunners. Thus, it devotes chapters to EFTA, the OECD, and to issues as agriculture, cartels and monetary problems. The volume also contains the essay in the title which poses the question of what would have happened had there been no Schuman Plan back in 1950. This book should appeal to students of contemporary history, especially those interested in EU history, and to political scientists who will discover a rich palette of case studies upon which to test their theories. Its constructively critical slant on developments provides interesting perspectives to those general readers seeking a nuanced approach between the extremes of the current pro- or anti- in the debates on Europe.
eBook
Regulating Capital
Financial instability threatens the global economy. The
volatility of capital movements across national borders has led
many observers to argue for a reformed \"global financial
architecture,\" a body of consistent rules and institutions to
prevent financial crises. Yet regulators have a decidedly mixed
record in their attempts to create global standards for the
financial system. David Andrew Singer seeks to explain the varying
pressures on regulatory agencies to negotiate internationally
acceptable rules and suggests that the variation is largely
traceable to the different domestic political pressures faced by
regulators. In Regulating Capital, Singer provides both a theory of
the effects of domestic pressures on international regulation and a
detailed analysis of regulators' attempts at international
rulemaking in banking, securities, and insurance. Singer addresses
the complexities of global finance in an accessible style, and he
does not turn away from the more dramatic aspects of globalization;
he makes clear the international implications of bank failures and
stock-market crashes, the rise of derivatives, and the catastrophic
financial losses caused by Hurricane Katrina and the events of
September 11.
Financial instability threatens the global economy. The
volatility of capital movements across national borders has led
many observers to argue for a reformed \"global financial
architecture,\" a body of consistent rules and institutions to
prevent financial crises. Yet regulators have a decidedly mixed
record in their attempts to create global standards for the
financial system. David Andrew Singer seeks to explain the varying
pressures on regulatory agencies to negotiate internationally
acceptable rules and suggests that the variation is largely
traceable to the different domestic political pressures faced by
regulators. In Regulating Capital , Singer provides both a
theory of the effects of domestic pressures on international
regulation and a detailed analysis of regulators' attempts at
international rulemaking in banking, securities, and insurance.
Singer addresses the complexities of global finance in an
accessible style, and he does not turn away from the more dramatic
aspects of globalization; he makes clear the international
implications of bank failures and stock-market crashes, the rise of
derivatives, and the catastrophic financial losses caused by
Hurricane Katrina and the events of September 11.
eBook
Economic interdependence and international conflict
The claim that open trade promotes peace has sparked heated debate among scholars and policymakers for centuries. Until recently, however, this claim remained untested and largely unexplored. Economic Interdependence and International Conflict clarifies the state of current knowledge about the effects of foreign commerce on political-military relations and identifies the avenues of new research needed to improve our understanding of this relationship. The contributions to this volume offer crucial insights into the political economy of national security, the causes of war, and the politics of global economic relations.
eBook