Difusi Transnasional Ide-Ide Advokasi Hutnang Luar Negeri:Studi Gerakan AdvokasiHutang Di Indonesia

ACHMAD Anam Thamrin,

2002 | Skripsi | Ilmu Hubungan Internasional

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; (2) Regionalism in the context of Export Oriented Industrialization (EOI) and “open regionalism,” 1990s-1998; and (3) Regionalism in the context of the post-Asian crisis and multi-level regionalism. This periodization, however, does not necessarily represent a linear-stage or the transformation of economic regionalism. On the contrary, this periodization is constituted through the cautious investigation on the discursive characters within which economic regionalism in Southeast Asia is operated. Identification of discourses in those periods will possibly reveal the power relations in constructing economic regionalism in Southeast Asia. This study vividly demonstrates that the discourse of economic regionalism in ASEAN is highly vulnerable and its periodization, in other words, also proves the various dislocations in the making of regionalism. The policy choices towards regionalism, therefore, are not exclusively based on technicalstrategic considerations, but they are embedded in, and the products of, the complex relations of power and interest in the domestic-regional-global spectrum. Kata kunci: construction of economic regionalism, globalization and development, discourse, open regionalism, power relations, Southeast Asia.

Kata Kunci : Difusi Transnasional