동아시아 지역협력과 아세안의 리더십 전략: 대외적 대표성과 개별적 자율성의 동태적 상호작용을 중심으로

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Since the Asian financial crisis, East Asian countries have actively sought to institutionalize regional cooperation in the region. This aims to explain how and why ASEAN could exert the leadership in this process. In particular, I focus on the interaction between the two motivations: external representation and individual countries’s policy autonomy. I argue that ASEAN could play a leadership role as it maintained the subtle balance between the two policy objectives, which can be potentially contradictory to each other. On the one hand, if ASEAN tries to substantially enhance policy coordination among ASEAN members to strengthen external representation, it runs the risk of undermining individual countries’ policy autonomy. On the other hand, If ASEAN stresses individual countries’ policy autonomy, it is difficult to take a coherent policy stance, thereby weakening external representation of ASEAN. I demonstrate that ASEAN has continuously deepened internal economic integration as a means to address this dilemma. That is, internal economic integration helped ASEAN engage in a dynamic and evolutionary balancing between external representation and individual countries’ policy autonomy.

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