The Proliferation of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) after the Deadlock in the Multilateral Trade Negotiation (MTN):

This paper is trying to answer a question: What is the main motivation for the EU to have an FTA with ASEAN? and a sub question: What is the driving forces for the EU to have an FTA with ASEAN?. In order to answer those question, the paper will use the concept of power and realism. With the power relation that emerged in the negotiation procesess, the party who aggresivelly acted in the negotiation will emerged and using itsa meta power to exercised its power in the negotiation to achieve their goals and objectives. From the negotiation processes of the AEFTA, ASEAN seems not have advantages over the EU; hence the EU is exercise its meta power over ASEAN to change the rules of the game toward a market based regime of FTA rather than authoritative one. The behavior of the EU in the proliferation of the FTA is caused by the stalemate in the MTN.