The article endeavours to link Aid for Trade (AfT) and Trade Facilitation (TF) conceptual and pra... more The article endeavours to link Aid for Trade (AfT) and Trade Facilitation (TF) conceptual and practical frameworks following a much celebrated trade deal among the WTO (World Trade Organization) members in its 9 Ministerial Conference in Bali, Indonesia (December 2013). As part of the deal, the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) marked an escape from a more-than-a-decade long negotiated Doha Round. Currently being in the process of members’ ratification, TFA proffers a question on whether and how developing country members would fully commit and implement the agreement considering their behind-the-border lacking resources and technical capacity. The case of Indonesia in particular presents an illustration where the country’s serious logistical problems could further limit its TF capacity building despite its AfT abundant programs and projects. The article is hence to assess the country’s logistics performance and its management reform in an effort to integrate the existing AfT and T...
Competition in the oil and gas industry today cannot be avoided since this sector is considered a... more Competition in the oil and gas industry today cannot be avoided since this sector is considered as the most important asset for every country. Each company competes to reach the global market in order to encourage the growth of national economy. To be able to penetrate global competition, Pertamina at least should be able to compete in the region level first, before confronting national oil and gas company Petronas, which is currently a giant oil and gas company in Southeast Asia. Global Value Chain Analysis helps to examine how the comparison of these companies in improving their competitiveness.
Chinese developmental model is a debatable issue in developmental studies. As Socialist-Leninist ... more Chinese developmental model is a debatable issue in developmental studies. As Socialist-Leninist state, China succeed growing its economy by adopting free market economy, which then made China more interesting and complicated at once. Yet, there is no strict consensus on developmental model that China might adopt. The research discusses about how transformation occurred in China�s development process. The research attempts to analyze developmental model that China really applied by tracing Chinese development transformation from a phase to another phase. The research also emphasizes on how state played its role in every phase of development, and initiated transformation itself. This research is a literature studies and utilizes primary data which are obtained from books, journal, and related researches. Not only exploring China�s development policy, the research also examines theories in developmental studies and highlights developmental model in Statist School of thought such a...
Recently, development of climate change and environmental issues became a major focus in Internat... more Recently, development of climate change and environmental issues became a major focus in International Relations study. This research is going to elaborate the interconnectedness between environments with socio-economical as well as political issues. It is the manifestation of development and environmental governance as a major variable in a sub-regional cooperation. This research uses Political Ecology as the main approach. One of the most emerging subregional cooperation to address environmental issues and development is Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). GMS is a development cooperation mechanisms designed and sponsored by the Asian Development Bank. In 1992, GMS was initiated to improve economic development in natural economic areas of the Mekong river in Asia, namely Yunnan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China and five ASEAN member countries including Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam. GMS member countries have benefit...
Regionalism is a worldwide trend in international cooperation today. States works together with t... more Regionalism is a worldwide trend in international cooperation today. States works together with their neighbors to create an institutional cooperation encompassing diverse issues from economy to politic. Mercosur is one of those regionalism which formed in Latin America in 1991. Joined by Brazil, Argentine, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Bolivia, and several other associate members, Mercosur is the biggest regional economy in South America surpassing other regional institution such as Comunidad Andina and ALBA. In the diversity of regional institution in South America, Mercosur emerged as an unique institution with their own pattern, structure, vision, and norms. This Thesis analyze the rational design of international institution which applied in Mercosur by describing the structure, system, and explaining rational reason on why the design was chosen and has been developing. The analyzis came from assumption that institutional design has been formed by formulation of the member stat...
Industrial Property Right is a sensitive issue towards the developing country as Vietnam. Accessi... more Industrial Property Right is a sensitive issue towards the developing country as Vietnam. Accession to the WTO at 2007 and approved the TRIPs Agreement makes Vietnam engaged in a system to guarantee the protection of industrial property rights. However, this industrial property rights were far from compliance with the TRIPs Agreement. Various legal violations occur over this right. Vietnam has not been able to comply with the commitments of this agreement because it could not provide sufficient protection and strict law enforcement towards the infringements.
Established in 2001, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) initially bears a task to manage reg... more Established in 2001, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) initially bears a task to manage regional peace and stability from the harmful acts of �The Three Evils� stands for terrorism, separatism, and extremism, threatened every corner of each member countries, which stretched away in adjacent border. Consists of several ex-Soviet countries which are Kazakhstan, Kyrgyztan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, the dynamics of Shanghai Cooperation Organizations agenda also had been influenced much all along by China and Russia as the prominent member. Though consensus has been a part of its decision making process over a decade, yet the role of experienced and ruthless international politics actor like China and Russia are inevitably filled the spot of running an agenda infuser in the organization, while the other members were still focusing more on developing their countries and adapting on any other multilateral cooperation schemes. The year of 2003 were marking the era of the importa...
In this thesis, the author would like to explain about case against the risk of developmentalism ... more In this thesis, the author would like to explain about case against the risk of developmentalism in Ecuador by using a prominent, notorious and solid indigenous people�s movement as its level of analysis. This social movement named FOIN was found as peasant-based movement in Ecuador,at first and shifted its paradigm to identity based movements using indigenous as its explicit agenda. This paradigm shift could be elaborate as a typical transformation that happened in many social movements cases that can be found in Latin America. This new social agenda would become another exponential agent of change that trying to oppose social injustice caused by global capitalisme and repressive goverment policy. This thesis also would like to offer explanations based on historical analysis on FOIN to determine what makes the paradigm shift on its social agendas. Social movements anatomical change would be further explained in this thesis as their adaptation as new social movement to encounter c...
ASEAN-China Free Trade Area or written with the title ACFTA in this research is a form of regiona... more ASEAN-China Free Trade Area or written with the title ACFTA in this research is a form of regional cooperation between China with ASEAN in force officially began January 1, 2010. In general, this partnership aims to increase the volume of trade between the two parties
The focus of this study is the value chains dynamic in national autobody industry. National autob... more The focus of this study is the value chains dynamic in national autobody industry. National autobody industry are faced with global shift automarket and the global automotive industry structure. This study was divided into three value chain
Latin American studies is expanding toward a promising course. Variety of issues has been develop... more Latin American studies is expanding toward a promising course. Variety of issues has been developed and currently influencing the progress of academic biospehere. One of the most prominent issue that has been developed is about global social movement. Social movements in Latin America, are not only becoming an instrument to articulate interests of the people, but also a salient pressure group that have the capability to produce revolution. One of the most recent case was the post-coup movement in Honduras. In 2009, Honduras experienced one of Latin American politics most 'outdated' characteristic : a coup d'etat. The President at that time, Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales, was ousted an being replaced by the Chairman of National Congress, Roberto Micheletti, by the help from the military. Allegedly, it was Zelaya's shift to the left and his proposal on performing a referndum, that jeopardized Honduras. This phenomenon impact the rise of a new social movement called Frente...
Despite resilient trends towards globalized economy, the post-cold war landscape of international... more Despite resilient trends towards globalized economy, the post-cold war landscape of international political economic relations has been characterized by wide-ranging regional arrangements. The process predominantly aims at easing trans-border management in the frame of liberalizing economic (in terms mainly of trade) relations. The regionalization processes modeled after that of the European one highlight the development of regional integration elsewhere around the globe. East/Southeast Asian and Latin American regional arrangements in particular are among major examples. The establishment of AFTA (ASEAN Free Trade Area) covering 10 (ten) Southeast Asian countries which recurrently to be engaged with their East Asian neighboring partners (the so-called ASEAN+3) and MERCOSUR (Mercado Comun del Sur/the Common Market of the South) consisting of 4 (four) southernmost countries of South American continent is the milestone to further regional economic integration in each respective area.
By offering the Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment (TSIA) assessment tools and beyond, the ar... more By offering the Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment (TSIA) assessment tools and beyond, the article discusses economic and non-economic aspects worth considering in light of Indonesia’s interest to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). It identifies trade and non-trade elements of which future signatories of TPP Agreement such as Indonesia must take into account prior to its final decision on whether to join. Utilizing sustainable development perspective to assess a free trade agreement (FTA), TSIA offers a distinctive feature of measuring not only an FTA economic impact, but also non-trade ones that potentially arise from the agreement. This chapter accordingly offers a framework by which a careful and thorough assessment is required and of which rational calculation is settled on whether the benefits of joining TPP would outweigh the costs of remaining outside the agreement.
ASEAN Community 2015 is a significant stepping stone for South East Asia regionalism as it remark... more ASEAN Community 2015 is a significant stepping stone for South East Asia regionalism as it remarks the implementation of common market phase principles by liberalizing production factors movement within region. Since 2007, ASEAN has gradually increased its integration, in which higher education is recognized as strategic issue to increase regional service trade and human development quality. Related to the issue, this research is conducted to understand driving forces behind ASEAN regionalism and its purposes to member countries from higher education perspective by employing qualitative method to collect and analyze data. Research findings show that education globalization and internal dynamics are main driving forces behind ASEAN regionalism, functioning as defensive collective action toward education globalization and harmonization of national interest in socio-economic issues.
The article endeavours to link Aid for Trade (AfT) and Trade Facilitation (TF) conceptual and pra... more The article endeavours to link Aid for Trade (AfT) and Trade Facilitation (TF) conceptual and practical frameworks following a much celebrated trade deal among the WTO (World Trade Organization) members in its 9 Ministerial Conference in Bali, Indonesia (December 2013). As part of the deal, the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) marked an escape from a more-than-a-decade long negotiated Doha Round. Currently being in the process of members’ ratification, TFA proffers a question on whether and how developing country members would fully commit and implement the agreement considering their behind-the-border lacking resources and technical capacity. The case of Indonesia in particular presents an illustration where the country’s serious logistical problems could further limit its TF capacity building despite its AfT abundant programs and projects. The article is hence to assess the country’s logistics performance and its management reform in an effort to integrate the existing AfT and T...
Competition in the oil and gas industry today cannot be avoided since this sector is considered a... more Competition in the oil and gas industry today cannot be avoided since this sector is considered as the most important asset for every country. Each company competes to reach the global market in order to encourage the growth of national economy. To be able to penetrate global competition, Pertamina at least should be able to compete in the region level first, before confronting national oil and gas company Petronas, which is currently a giant oil and gas company in Southeast Asia. Global Value Chain Analysis helps to examine how the comparison of these companies in improving their competitiveness.
Chinese developmental model is a debatable issue in developmental studies. As Socialist-Leninist ... more Chinese developmental model is a debatable issue in developmental studies. As Socialist-Leninist state, China succeed growing its economy by adopting free market economy, which then made China more interesting and complicated at once. Yet, there is no strict consensus on developmental model that China might adopt. The research discusses about how transformation occurred in China�s development process. The research attempts to analyze developmental model that China really applied by tracing Chinese development transformation from a phase to another phase. The research also emphasizes on how state played its role in every phase of development, and initiated transformation itself. This research is a literature studies and utilizes primary data which are obtained from books, journal, and related researches. Not only exploring China�s development policy, the research also examines theories in developmental studies and highlights developmental model in Statist School of thought such a...
Recently, development of climate change and environmental issues became a major focus in Internat... more Recently, development of climate change and environmental issues became a major focus in International Relations study. This research is going to elaborate the interconnectedness between environments with socio-economical as well as political issues. It is the manifestation of development and environmental governance as a major variable in a sub-regional cooperation. This research uses Political Ecology as the main approach. One of the most emerging subregional cooperation to address environmental issues and development is Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). GMS is a development cooperation mechanisms designed and sponsored by the Asian Development Bank. In 1992, GMS was initiated to improve economic development in natural economic areas of the Mekong river in Asia, namely Yunnan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China and five ASEAN member countries including Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam. GMS member countries have benefit...
Regionalism is a worldwide trend in international cooperation today. States works together with t... more Regionalism is a worldwide trend in international cooperation today. States works together with their neighbors to create an institutional cooperation encompassing diverse issues from economy to politic. Mercosur is one of those regionalism which formed in Latin America in 1991. Joined by Brazil, Argentine, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Bolivia, and several other associate members, Mercosur is the biggest regional economy in South America surpassing other regional institution such as Comunidad Andina and ALBA. In the diversity of regional institution in South America, Mercosur emerged as an unique institution with their own pattern, structure, vision, and norms. This Thesis analyze the rational design of international institution which applied in Mercosur by describing the structure, system, and explaining rational reason on why the design was chosen and has been developing. The analyzis came from assumption that institutional design has been formed by formulation of the member stat...
Industrial Property Right is a sensitive issue towards the developing country as Vietnam. Accessi... more Industrial Property Right is a sensitive issue towards the developing country as Vietnam. Accession to the WTO at 2007 and approved the TRIPs Agreement makes Vietnam engaged in a system to guarantee the protection of industrial property rights. However, this industrial property rights were far from compliance with the TRIPs Agreement. Various legal violations occur over this right. Vietnam has not been able to comply with the commitments of this agreement because it could not provide sufficient protection and strict law enforcement towards the infringements.
Established in 2001, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) initially bears a task to manage reg... more Established in 2001, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) initially bears a task to manage regional peace and stability from the harmful acts of �The Three Evils� stands for terrorism, separatism, and extremism, threatened every corner of each member countries, which stretched away in adjacent border. Consists of several ex-Soviet countries which are Kazakhstan, Kyrgyztan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, the dynamics of Shanghai Cooperation Organizations agenda also had been influenced much all along by China and Russia as the prominent member. Though consensus has been a part of its decision making process over a decade, yet the role of experienced and ruthless international politics actor like China and Russia are inevitably filled the spot of running an agenda infuser in the organization, while the other members were still focusing more on developing their countries and adapting on any other multilateral cooperation schemes. The year of 2003 were marking the era of the importa...
In this thesis, the author would like to explain about case against the risk of developmentalism ... more In this thesis, the author would like to explain about case against the risk of developmentalism in Ecuador by using a prominent, notorious and solid indigenous people�s movement as its level of analysis. This social movement named FOIN was found as peasant-based movement in Ecuador,at first and shifted its paradigm to identity based movements using indigenous as its explicit agenda. This paradigm shift could be elaborate as a typical transformation that happened in many social movements cases that can be found in Latin America. This new social agenda would become another exponential agent of change that trying to oppose social injustice caused by global capitalisme and repressive goverment policy. This thesis also would like to offer explanations based on historical analysis on FOIN to determine what makes the paradigm shift on its social agendas. Social movements anatomical change would be further explained in this thesis as their adaptation as new social movement to encounter c...
ASEAN-China Free Trade Area or written with the title ACFTA in this research is a form of regiona... more ASEAN-China Free Trade Area or written with the title ACFTA in this research is a form of regional cooperation between China with ASEAN in force officially began January 1, 2010. In general, this partnership aims to increase the volume of trade between the two parties
The focus of this study is the value chains dynamic in national autobody industry. National autob... more The focus of this study is the value chains dynamic in national autobody industry. National autobody industry are faced with global shift automarket and the global automotive industry structure. This study was divided into three value chain
Latin American studies is expanding toward a promising course. Variety of issues has been develop... more Latin American studies is expanding toward a promising course. Variety of issues has been developed and currently influencing the progress of academic biospehere. One of the most prominent issue that has been developed is about global social movement. Social movements in Latin America, are not only becoming an instrument to articulate interests of the people, but also a salient pressure group that have the capability to produce revolution. One of the most recent case was the post-coup movement in Honduras. In 2009, Honduras experienced one of Latin American politics most 'outdated' characteristic : a coup d'etat. The President at that time, Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales, was ousted an being replaced by the Chairman of National Congress, Roberto Micheletti, by the help from the military. Allegedly, it was Zelaya's shift to the left and his proposal on performing a referndum, that jeopardized Honduras. This phenomenon impact the rise of a new social movement called Frente...
Despite resilient trends towards globalized economy, the post-cold war landscape of international... more Despite resilient trends towards globalized economy, the post-cold war landscape of international political economic relations has been characterized by wide-ranging regional arrangements. The process predominantly aims at easing trans-border management in the frame of liberalizing economic (in terms mainly of trade) relations. The regionalization processes modeled after that of the European one highlight the development of regional integration elsewhere around the globe. East/Southeast Asian and Latin American regional arrangements in particular are among major examples. The establishment of AFTA (ASEAN Free Trade Area) covering 10 (ten) Southeast Asian countries which recurrently to be engaged with their East Asian neighboring partners (the so-called ASEAN+3) and MERCOSUR (Mercado Comun del Sur/the Common Market of the South) consisting of 4 (four) southernmost countries of South American continent is the milestone to further regional economic integration in each respective area.
By offering the Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment (TSIA) assessment tools and beyond, the ar... more By offering the Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment (TSIA) assessment tools and beyond, the article discusses economic and non-economic aspects worth considering in light of Indonesia’s interest to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). It identifies trade and non-trade elements of which future signatories of TPP Agreement such as Indonesia must take into account prior to its final decision on whether to join. Utilizing sustainable development perspective to assess a free trade agreement (FTA), TSIA offers a distinctive feature of measuring not only an FTA economic impact, but also non-trade ones that potentially arise from the agreement. This chapter accordingly offers a framework by which a careful and thorough assessment is required and of which rational calculation is settled on whether the benefits of joining TPP would outweigh the costs of remaining outside the agreement.
ASEAN Community 2015 is a significant stepping stone for South East Asia regionalism as it remark... more ASEAN Community 2015 is a significant stepping stone for South East Asia regionalism as it remarks the implementation of common market phase principles by liberalizing production factors movement within region. Since 2007, ASEAN has gradually increased its integration, in which higher education is recognized as strategic issue to increase regional service trade and human development quality. Related to the issue, this research is conducted to understand driving forces behind ASEAN regionalism and its purposes to member countries from higher education perspective by employing qualitative method to collect and analyze data. Research findings show that education globalization and internal dynamics are main driving forces behind ASEAN regionalism, functioning as defensive collective action toward education globalization and harmonization of national interest in socio-economic issues.
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