In this paper, with a focus on Japan and Thailand, we outline a relational environmental and economic history of East Asian economic integration (EAEI) and its implication for the commons in both places. We draw attention in particular to global commodity chains as relational processes not only of trade and investment, but also geopolitics and aid, to argue that these transborder processes have connected together commons in distant localities resulting in their simultaneous enclosure, dispossession and (re‐)commoning with implications for community vulnerabilities in positive and negative ways. To demonstrate this argument we analyse three periods of EAEI: the late nineteenth century until World War II, when Japan and Thailand both began to modernise and new trade and geopolitical relations emerged in the context of colonialism; the post‐World War II recovery until the Plaza Accord in 1986, during which time Japan rapidly industrialised, as did Thailand to a lesser extent and regionalism was largely defined by US hegemony; and the post‐Plaza Accord period, when Japan deindustrialised its labour intensive manufacture and heavy industry and Thailand rapidly industrialised and EAEI became defined by new and intensified global commodity chains.

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越境过程如何联系日本和泰国的公地：全球商品链与东亚经济一体化的关系分析

在本文中，我们重点介绍了日本和泰国，概述了东亚经济一体化（EAEI）的相关环境和经济历史，以及对东亚经济一体化的启示。我们特别提请注意全球商品链，因为它们不仅是贸易和投资的关系过程，而且是地缘政治和援助的关系过程，认为这些跨境过程将遥远地方的公地联系在一起，导致它们同时封闭，处置和（重新）以积极和消极的方式共通于对社区漏洞的影响。为了证明这一论点，我们分析了EAEI的三个时期：19世纪末直到第二次世界大战，日本和泰国开始现代化，在殖民主义背景下出现了新的贸易和地缘政治关系。第二次世界大战后的复苏，直到1986年的《广场协议》，在此期间日本迅速工业化，泰国的发展程度也有所降低，而区域主义在很大程度上由美国霸权所定义；后广场协议时期，日本将其劳动密集型制造业和重工业去工业化，泰国迅速工业化，而EAEI则被新的和日趋密集的全球商品链所定义。