This research project focuses on Asian regionalism. Asian countries started regional cooperation in the 1960s with different motivation and cooperation formats. In the 1960s, there was the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and then the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council and South Asian Association Regional Cooperation in the 1980s, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and Asian Regional Forum in the 1990s, and the Shanghai Five mechanism in 1996 and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in 2001. The regional cooperation institutions in Asia are very different from regional arrangements in Europe, North America, Latin America and Africa.

Contact person: Xinning Song