Looking at ASEAN Centrality in the Amidst of TPP & RCEP Mega-Regional Competition

Aspin Nur Arifin Rivai; Gema Ramadhan  Bastari

doi:10.24252/vp.v5i2.33808

Aspin Nur Arifin Rivai Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin Makassar
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Gema Ramadhan Bastari Prakerti Collective Intelligence
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24252/vp.v5i2.33808

Abstrak

Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk memahami kembali progresifitas regionalisme ekonomi yang terjadi di kawasan Asia Tenggara. Berbeda dengan kajian-kajian sebelumnya, tulisan ini memaparkan kompleksitas kawasan Asia Pasifik sangat berpengaruh bagi konfigurasi liberalisme ekonomi di ASEAN. Persaingan mega-regional antara TPP dan RCEP menjadi ujian bagi sentralitas ASEAN yang disebabkan oleh Vietnam, Singapura, Malaysia, dan Brunei memilih bergabung dikeduanya. Padahal, RCEP sebagai agenda sentralitas ASEAN bersama negara mitra FTA. Paper ini memperhatikan dua bentuk kondisi yaitu: (1) memahami transformasi kemitraan mega-regional di Asia Pasifik, (2) memahami sikap empat negara tersebut yang memilih bergabung di dua model mega-regional. Teori yang digunakan ialah teori perdagangan baru yang dituliskan oleh Vinod K. Aggarwal dan Lee. Temuannya yaitu adanya pembaharuan persepsi, kepentingan dan reformasi institusi domestik mengiringi terciptanya RCEP dan TPP. Sementra itu, sikap Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapura, dan Brunei memilih bergabung dikeduanya sebagai pertimbangan keuntungan ekonomi, pertimbangan ekonomi-politik, motivasi perbaikan struktur domestik, dan pertimbangan keamanan. Keempat pertimbangan ini cenderung sama dihampir semua negara, khususnya memanfaatkan liberalisasi ekonomi yang lebih luas.

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