The EU-Thailand Relations: Tracing the Patterns of New by Chaiyakorn Kiatpongsan

By Chaiyakorn Kiatpongsan

Since the mid-1990s a brand new international coverage improvement often called new bilateralism has been observable regardless of the commonly stated political and fiscal benefits of multilateralism. This hugely theoretical, in-depth research opens dialogue of the results of latest bilateralism for diplomacy. The case learn examine of the EU-Thailand family exhibits that—in instances whilst multilateralism is in crisis—shifts in the direction of a international coverage pragmatism happen and that the customers of bilateral engagement, id formation, and rhetorical motion facilitate such behavioral change.

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The Singapore Issues focus on four main points: (i) investment protection, (ii) competition policy, (iii) transparency in government procurement and (iv) trade facilitation. The first two points appear to be especially sensitive issues, which sharply divide the positions of the developed and developing world. This is why relations between investment and trade as well as other essential traderelated issues are increasingly included within a bilateral free trade agreement framework, for example, the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (2003) or the Australia-Thailand Free Trade Agreement (2004).

Today the development policy no longer has the same degree of relevance in the international relations literature, but it is still worth investigating more deeply because, as a matter of fact, several former recipient states became key players in the current trend of ‘new bilateralism’ in the mid-1990s. ). To start with, the difference between ‘old’ and ‘new’ development agendas is most evident by a ‘change of emphasis’ (Stokke 2005). Although it continues to focus on particular issues, the ‘new’ agenda has apparently undergone modifications that were realized in the New Poverty Agenda, the policies and initiative toward highly indebted poor countries (HIPCs) and, in a more general sense, the commitments to the Millennium Development Goals.

Since new bilateralism has the advantage of dealing with the particular issues of the two parties involved, it tends to ‘break up’ a comprehensive agenda into so-called ‘multiple issue-specific alliances’ (Smith and Tsatsas 2002: 29). It is not uncommon for new bilateral agreements to focus on one particular policy area, be it economic or securityrelated matters. 17 This trend can also be observed in development cooperation insofar as the new programs agreed upon become more specific in terms of project goals and guidelines, for example, the bilateral agreements on science and technology or the HIPC initiatives mentioned above.

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