Free trade agreements in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific

Professor Christopher M. Dent, Professor of East Asia's International Political Economy, Department of East Asian Studies, and White Rose East Asia Centre (WREAC), University of Leeds, gæster Københavns Universitet for at indlede et samarbejde med Professor Jakob R. Munch fra ØI og Professor Jørgen Delman fra ToRS.

I forbindelse med sit besøg vil Professor Dent give to forelæsninger:

• "Free trade agreements in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific", Økonomisk Institut den 22.9.2010
• "Energy diplomacy/security and East Asia", Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier den 23.9.2010

Abstract: ‘Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific'

Since the late 1990s, the rapid proliferation of free trade agreement (FTA) activity in the Asia-Pacific has brought about important changes to its regional political economy. FTAs remain the most substantive international economic pacts that East Asian countries have hitherto signed on a bilateral or regional basis, and their political, security and cultural dimensions can be significant. In this presentation, Christopher Dent examines the causes and consequences of the Asia-Pacific's recent FTA trend, and considers its future path and impacts on the region's international relations.