Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/109595 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 80
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila
Abstract: 
Feedback mechanisms are the key to sequencing when it comes to regional integration; can mean that today’s policy or institution alters the political-economy landscape in a way that makes it politically optimal for future governments to take further steps toward integration—even when these steps are not politically optimal from today’s perspective. After outlining the theory, the paper uses feedback mechanisms to organize Europe’s postwar integration narrative, and then draws lessons for today’s integration of East Asia. The paper suggests that the spontaneous cooperation that created "Factory Asia" has not been codified. One starting point for Asian regional institutions would be to institutionalize the spontaneous cooperation that already exists on trade, services, and investment. New, creative thinking is needed on the sort of soft-law commitments and new modes of cooperation that would make this work with limited sovereignty pooling.
Subjects: 
sequencing regionalism
lessons of European integration
East Asian integration
regionalism
JEL: 
F02
F13
F15
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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