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Motivasi India Mengundurkan Diri Dari Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (Rcep) Tahun 2019
This research aims to explain India’s decision to pull out from the
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). RCEP is a regional free
trade agreement consisted of 16 countries of all ASEAN members, Australia, New
Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Russia, and India. With this group of countries,
RCEP is expected to be the world’s biggest trading bloc. Under the
administration of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh India was an active
participant the RCEP negotiation in 2012. However, when Narendra Modi took
over from Singh in 2014, India decided to withdraw from RCEP. This move has
contradicted India’s Act East foreign policy to engage with Asia-Pacific
countries, which a membership of RCEP could have benefited India even more.
This research applies the economic nationalism perspective to analyze
India’s decision to pull out from RCEP. According to this approach, some
nationalists consider the safeguarding of national economic interests as the
minimum essential to the security and survival of the state. This qualitative
research uses explanative methods. The data was collected through document
analysis or analysing the secondary data, such as book, journal, official
publication, report and websites.
This research finds that the decision to withdraw from RCEP has been
driven from India’s domestic politics that reluctant to multilateralism. Modi and
political party, Bharatiya Janata Party,viewed RCEP does not reflect both India’s
national and economic interest. There is also the growing concern that RCEP
would threaten India’s domestic industries, especially the dairy and steel sectors
which are very important in India.
Keywords: India, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, national
interest, economic nationalism, and Modinomics.
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