Research On Nontraditional Gains Of International Economic Integration Under Different Agreement Forms

With the prevailing of unilateralism,the traditional gain theory represented by direct economic income is gradually replaced by nontraditional gain theory,which represented by noneconomic or indirect economic income.People pay more and more attention to the current international economic integration in whether there exists the practical and measurable nontraditional gains,and what are the factors that influence it? These are the background of our study.In terms of theoretical perspective,the paper first summarizes relevant researches of nontraditional gain theory,and discusses the theoretical connotation of nontraditional gain of international economic integration.On the basis of theoretical analysis,this paper makes further examination and explanation on nontraditional gain under different forms of international agreements,which were divided into three forms according to the formality degree: formal agreement,contingent agreement and tacit agreement,that we seperately chooses China ASEAN Free Trade Area,APEC and “ The Belt and Road "initiative as examples to do confirmatory factor analysis with the structural equation mode(SEM).Through the study,we draw two main conclusions: First is the existence of nontraditional gains,namely the countries involved in the international eonomic integration can obtain different degrees of noneconomic or indirect economic gain.Secondly,there are differences in nontraditional gain between different forms of agreements: under a formal agreement countries can obtain stronger effect of insurance and signaling,while under informal agreement more benefits of policy consistence.However,in a world where the international integration agreement has no absolute stability,the greater risk of breach of contract will lead to greater uncertainty in nontraditional gains.