Introduction: New Asian Regionalism as a Global Paradigm Shift

Abstract

This book offers a panoramic account of new Asian regionalism in international economic law. It explores interrelated theoretical and substantive claims on proliferating trade and investment agreements in the Asia-Pacific. More specifically, it argues that new Asian regionalism has emerged amid the third wave of global regionalism and contributed to the New Regional Economic Order (NREO), which reinvigorates the role of developing countries in shaping international trade norms. The research therefore serves as a timely response to the rival of the Asian century.