The Political and Economic Change Program is crucially important to the analysis of internationalisation as theory and process. Our program draws its relevance from the fact that globalisation brings a raft of fundamental institutional challenges to the Asia Pacific.

Amongst them are such issues as the development of systems of proper corporate governance and democracy; assessing the putative effects economic globalisation in wealth enhancement and its alleged promotion of accelerating global inequalities; the development of different kinds of regional architecture to allow for more balanced and rewarding engagement with the world economy (e.g. free trade agreements) and sustainable growth.

Program Leader: Professor Yan Islam