Intraregional Trade of the Asia-Pacific Under the Influence of Geopolitical Factors

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	Regionalistica 2025 Volume 12 number 1 pages 5-18

Title of the article	Intraregional Trade of the Asia-Pacific Under the Influence of Geopolitical Factors
Pages	5-18
Author	Dyomina Yana Valeryevna candidate of sciences (economics), senior research fellow Economic Research Institute FEB RAS 153, Tikhookeanskaya Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680042 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0001-5208-7273
Abstract	The article examines «deep» and «shallow» stages of international economic integration from the perspective of classical and modern researchers. As an example of «shallow» economic integration in the Asia-Pacific region, the author studied the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), as an example of «deep» integration – ASEAN (from a canonical point of view, the bloc is not such, however, it has some elements of financial integration). The aggravation of the geopolitical situation in the region (the «trade war» between China and the United States) affects the formation of trade blocs and the dynamics of foreign trade of the Asia-Pacific countries. Based on the econometric analysis of the Tinbergen model, the study showed that such geopolitical factors as territorial disputes have a negative impact on intraregional trade within ASEAN and RCEP both in the medium term (2014–2023) and in the long-term retrospective (1993–2023). At the same time, «trade wars» have a negative effect in the long term for both blocs (more pronounced for ASEAN) while a positive effect in the medium term for RCEP and negative effect for ASEAN. RCEP member states compete in the main commodity markets of the region and the world, thus the positive effect of trade wars in the medium term. For ASEAN, whose level of integration is deeper, the effects of trade wars are always negative. The multidirectional effect of trade wars on blocks with varying degrees of «depth» of integration processes requires further investigation with new objects and time periods.
Code	330.8+339.5+339.9
DOI	10.14530/reg.2025.1.5
Keywords	economic integration, intraregional trade, FTA, APR, RCEP, ASEAN+3, ASEAN
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For citation	Dyomina Ya.V. Intraregional Trade of the Asia-Pacific Under the Influence of Geopolitical Factors. Regionalistica [Regionalistics]. 2025. Vol. 12. No. 1. Pp. 5–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.14530/reg.2025.1.5 (In Russian)
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