Pages Tagged : Regional Regimes in the Asia-Pacific

This research theme is overseen by Professor Huang Jing, CAG’s director and an internationally recognised expert on Chinese politics, China’s foreign relations and security issues, and Dr Harold Teng, CAG Research Fellow.

The Centre is in the process of planning and organising collaborative research projects to be located within this theme.

The recent proliferation of regional regimes, particularly regional trade regimes, has prompted a growth of scholarly interest in the subject on the part of both economists and political scientists. The former have explored the welfare consequences of regional regimes; the latter, the factors conducive to regime formation. These efforts have advanced our knowledge of the origins and effects of regional regimes. They have not, however, yielded generally accepted theoretical answers to two central questions: First, why do governments choose to form regional regimes?