ASEAN:KONSTRUKSI REGIONALISME EKONOMI ASIA TENGGARA

This study seeks to deeply comprehend the construction of economic regionalism in the context of market-globalization and economic development in Southeast Asia. Unlike the mainstream studies on regionalism which perceive the emergence of economic integration as structural consequences of globalization/interdependence or merely an institutional-transactionalism, I strongly argue that economic regionalism is a political project that are strategically articulated through ASEAN. The dynamics of economic integration, therefore, must be understood through the certain political project of dominant coalitions to respond the regional and global changes. Specifically, this study observes two main inquiries: (1) how do the leaders of ASEAN countries perceive the structural changes in both regional and global level�and how do they respond it? How do their responds imply to the architectural construction of economic regionalism in Southeast Asia? By using these lens, this study subsequently identifies three periods of the construction of economic regionalism in Southeast Asia, that are: (1) Regionalism in the context of industrialization and New International Economic Order (NIEO), 1976-1990s