Readership of this book includes: competition/antitrust law academics, students, practitioners, enforcement agencies and policymakers. It examines how and why competition policy is needed at a regional level, over and above national competition law regimes, and the role it plays in facilitating the markets within ASEAN.

1. Competition law and policy in the ASEAN region: origins, objectives and opportunities Burton Ong; 2. Regionalisation of competition law and policy in ASEAN: why, how, and when? Wan Khatina Nawawi; 3. Diversity in national competition laws in the ASEAN region and the resulting challenges for businesses operating in the region Corinne Chew; 4. Competition law, state-owned enterprises and regional market integration in ASEAN Pornchai Wisuttisak and Cheong May Fong; 5. Can ASEAN achieve a single market with national-only competition law? Eleanor M. Fox; 6. Models of regional cooperation in competition law and policy from around the world: lessons for the ASEAN region G. Deniz Both; 7. The transplantability of the EU's competition law framework into the ASEAN region Josef Drexl; 8. Convergence and divergence within the EU's supranational competition law framework: norms, enforcement rules and prioritisation in the UK and Ireland Barry J. Rodger and Mary Catherine Lucey; 9. Antitrust appraisal of vertical agreements in the ASEAN economic community: proposals for a more harmonised approach Alison Jones; 10. Application of competition law to public services: the EU experience, the ASEAN approach and implications for regional integration in ASEAN Andrea Gideon; 11. Developing regional competition policy for ASEAN in the telecommunications sector John Townsend.