Veto players and state decisiveness: Negotiating bilateral economic partnership agreements between Japan and Southeast Asia

• Main Author: Batalla, Eric Vincent C.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2012
• Subjects: Southeast Asia—Commercial treaties; Japan—Commercial treaties; Southeast Asia—Commerce—Japan; Japan—Commerce—Southeast Asia; International Relations
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/658
• Institution: De La Salle University

This article extends the veto player framework introduced by Haggard and McCubbins in 2001 to examine state decisiveness toward bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) in developing countries of Southeast Asia. It uses as reference points Japan's bilateral economic partnership agreements (EPAs)...