Australia's Foreign Economic Policy and ASEAN

Contents

Contents List of Figures and Tables vii Abbreviations and Acronyms viii Acknowledgements xii 1 Introduction 1 Shifts in Australia’s Foreign Economic Policy 4 Focusing on ASEAN 5 Exploring the Domestic Policy Processes 7 The Evolution of Australia’s ASEAN Policy in Brief 9 Structure of the Book 12 2 An Analytical Framework 17 The International System as a Constraint on Policy 18 Behaviour The Focus of Domestic Policy Processes: State or Society? 22 State-Society Coalitions: Bringing the Bi-directionality of 25 State-Society Relations into Analysis 3 State-Society Coalitions and Australia’s Foreign Economic 34 Policy The Protectionist Tradition 35 Building Foundations of the Trade Liberalizers 50 The Ascendancy of the Trade Liberalizers 66 The Rise of the Bilateralists 81 4 Australia and the Formation of ASEAN 96 Australia’s Stance towards Southeast Asia after World 98 War II The Establishment of ASEAN and the Whitlam 105 Government’s New Policy The Development of ASEAN Economies and Economic 112 Disputes with Australia 00฀AFEP&A฀fm.indd฀฀฀5 1/27/10฀฀฀9:59:49฀AM vi฀ Contents 5 The Trade Liberalizers and Asia-Pacific Regionalist 132 Strategies Economic Development in East Asia and the Change 133 in Australia’s Recognition Asia-Pacific Regionalist Strategies 141 The Cairns Group Initiative and ASEAN’s Involvement 146 The APEC Initiative: ASEAN as the Key to Success 149 6 The Development of ASEAN Regionalism and the 163 AFTA–CER Linkage Dialogue The Development of ASEAN Regional Cooperation 164 The Enhancement of ASEAN Regionalism in the 1990s 172 ASEAN as the Front Gate of Australia’s Engagement 176 with East Asia The AFTA–CER Linkage Dialogue: Australia’s Response 181 to ASEAN’s Economic Regionalism 7 The Bilateralists and their ASEAN Policy 204 The Howard Government and Bilateralism 206 A Series of Exogenous Shocks and the Emergence 212 of the Bilateralists The Bilateralists Dominate and Seek “Competitive 216 Liberalization” The Bilateralists’ Policy towards ASEAN 231 8 Conclusion 247 The Rise and Fall of State-Society Coalitions and 247 Changes in Australia’s ASEAN Policy Implications for Australia’s Foreign Economic Policy 256 in the Future Appendix: Foreign Economic Policy-Related Ministers in Australia 266 since 1941 References 270 Index 298 About the Author 313 00฀AFEP&A฀fm.indd฀฀฀6 1/27/10฀฀฀9:59:49฀AM ...