ASEAN's External Agreements

Marise Cremona is Professor of European Law and a co-Director of the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute, Florence. Her research interests are in the external relations law of the European Union; she is particularly interested in the constitutional basis for EU external relations law and the legal and institutional dimensions of the EU's foreign policy, the interaction between national, regional and international legal and policy regimes, and the EU as an exporter of values and norms. David Kleimann is a Doctoral Researcher at the Law Department of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and a Research Fellow at the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) in Brussels. Within the area of international trade law and policy, his main expertise and research interest is the substantive coverage of the most recent generation of preferential trade agreements (PTA), as well as the institutional innovations that these treaties feature. Moreover, he has a keen interest in the policy implications of European Parliament's empowerment on trade policy matters following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty. Joris Larik is a Senior Researcher at The Hague Institute for Global Justice and Associate Fellow at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven. Dr Larik's work focuses on global governance reform and the advancement of global normative frameworks, the legal and policy aspects of EU external relations, comparative and multilevel constitutional law and comparative regional integration. Rena Lee is Senior State Counsel with the International Affairs Division of the Attorney-General's Chambers in Singapore. She covers a range of issues in various areas of international law, including law of the sea, boundary delimitation, human rights, climate change and privileges and immunities. Rena has been part of Singapore's delegation in several fora, both multilateral and bilateral, including the UN and ASEAN. Pascal Vennesson is Professor of Political Science at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research and teaching lie at the intersection of the fields of international relations and strategic studies. Before joining RSIS, he held the Chair 'Security in Europe' at the European University Institute's Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies.

• General editors' preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The legal and institutional framework for ASEAN external agreements: the centrality of ASEAN; 3. An inventory and typology of ASEAN external instruments: overview and trends; 4. ASEAN as a contracting party; 5. Beyond market access? The anatomy of ASEAN's preferential trade agreements; 6. A regional strategy: a typology of ASEAN partnership and co-operation agreements; 7. Between great-power rivalries and supranationality: ASEAN external instruments and regional hedging strategies; Executive summary; Appendices; Index.