GUEST EDITOR: • Badar Alam Iqbal, Non-resident Distinguished Fellow; Turkish Centre for Asia Pacific Studies [TCAPS]; Ankara, Turkey & Adjunct professor, Faculty of Economics and Finance of Monarch Business School; Monarch University (Switzerland); e-mail: dr.badar@umonarch-email.ch Badar Alam Iqbal is a scientist with high expertise in the area of international affairs with focus on emerging countries, holder of prestigious Fulbright Fellowships at Claflin University and Kentucky State University, as well as three DAAD Fellowships at renowned institutions in Germany. Dr. Iqbal is an Emeritus Professor for FBIAR (Ghana) and IUBAT (Dhaka), and an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Economics and Finance of Monarch Business School; Monarch University (Switzerland). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: • The proposals for this special issue indicating the title, objective, methodological approach, data sources and expected results with a maximum of 500 words should be submitted by e-mail to: dr.badar@umonarch-email.ch and in Cc: ejes@uaic.ro   (with the mention: SI_Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), by January 30th, 2025; • The authors will be notified about the acceptance of their proposal by February 10th, 2025; • The deadline for paper submission is May30th, 2025; however, early submissions are welcome; • The contributors are required to follow the authors’ guidelines. The paper acceptance is conditioned by strict compliance with the editing conditions, including references; • Evaluation period: May-August 2025; • The period of publication in online format (may undergo changes depending on the evolu-tion of the evaluation): September – October 2025. RATIONALE Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a regional free trade agreement between 15 member nations of Asia-Pacific, covering Trade in Goods, Trade in Services, Investment, and Economic and Technical cooperation. Through various Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with countries like China, South Korea, New Zealand, Australia, or India, RCEP provides opportunities for increasing the trade regionalisation and for promoting new rules on services trade, electronic commerce, intellectual property, government procurement, competition, and small and medium sized enterprises. The benefits of RCEP are seen in economic and social benefits but also in enhancing cross- border mobility, significant contribution of Singapore as a logistics hub, higher profit margins for SMEs, and enhanced digital trade environment. The spillover effects make this regional agreement more different than any other agreements in the world. A more significant dimension of RCEP is to address the conflicts among the participating nations in a humane and peaceful manner. The RCEP perspectives could also have a global impact on trade regionalisation, capital markets, foreign direct investment trends and geopolitical. We invite authors with contributions, especially on the following topics: RCEP: Emerging Issues and Challenges to World Trade; RCEP: Promotion of Multilateral economic integration; RCEP: Implications to Global Trade, Global Investment, and Global Tourism RCEP: Regional economic integration; RCEP: Implications to Trans-Pacific Partnership [TTP] Northeast and Southeast collaboration; RCEP: Emerging Issues and Challenges to EU; RCEP: Emerging Issues and Challenges to EU’s Major Economies; RCEP: The Way Forward. Besides the above-mentioned themes, the editors are open to and welcome also papers that relate to other relevant topics on impact of ASEAN and RCEP on the geopolitical dynamics and on the EU -Asian countries trade and cooperation.