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Critically analyze the role of ASEAN in the promotion of regional peace and security through economic cooperation and trade.

  • UPSC 2020
  • 15 marks
  • Regionalisation of World Politics

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The commercial liberal claim is that trade makes war costly. Richard Rosecrance's "trading state" (The Rise of the Trading State, 1986) prefers markets to conquest, and Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye's complex interdependence (Power and Interdependence, 1977) makes force a poor tool among partners. ASEAN is often cited as the Asian proof; the…

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