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This study provides a description and framework for analysis of the role that ideas and beliefs -- collectively, mental models or shared mental models -- have played in the formation of bilateral free trade agreement (BTA) policy in Southeast Asia. In doing so, this study compri…

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine empirically the state of economic interdependence and cooperation in East Asia. This dissertation consists of four chapters. Chapter One serves as an introduction to the dissertation where we discuss the current development in East …

This thesis seeks to evaluate the progress of regional community building in Southeast Asia, which has been undertaken by the Association of Southeast Asians (ASEAN). The thesis analyses the extent to which there has been a shift from policies and processes associated with “old …

This thesis addresses the puzzle of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN) prominence in regional order negotiation and management in East Asia during times of transition and crisis. It argues that ASEAN's prominence is not merely the result of structural dynamics o…

Informed by, and seeking to contribute to, discussions about appropriate methodology (e.g. Holliday, 1994), my study as reported in this thesis was concerned with appropriacy of paradigms in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). It explored practitioner perspe…

At the height of the Cold War in 1967, five nations of Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand) announced the formation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Although the turmoil taking place at the doorsteps of these nations heighte…

This dissertation seeks to theorize small state strategic culture with special reference to the attitude of the ASEAN states toward institutionalizing regional cooperative security architectures. The quantitative case studies show that in small states where historically rooted s…

Many regions of the world would like to replicate the financial and monetary integration of the European Monetary Union (EMU). Member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have shown an interest in such an arrangement. ASEAN is a political, cultural, an…

This thesis examines the extent of the impact that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has on nationalism and regional identity. In this study, the nations of Indonesia and Singapore are analysed from the constructivist perspective. The Republic of Indonesia is th…

At the end of the Second Indochina War (more popularly known in the United States as the Vietnam War), the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, and Democratic Kampuchea were among Vietnam’s closest allies. At the same time, the new Socialist Republic was hoping to estab…

An international trade model which explains trade patterns using relative technological progress and relative factor endowments was developed. This model was tested in the case of the agricultural and agri-based manufacturing sectors of the United States, the Newly Industrializi…