regionalist projects in Asia throughout the 1990s. As they demonstrate, Asian countries, especially Japan, have held a strong … desire to establish an Asia-only regional cooperation framework at least since the early 1990s. The basic policy stance of …

Despite a commonplace view that Asian regionalism lacks institutions, Asia, in fact, is full of regional institutions … and frameworks in various forms. The rise and fall of regional institutions in Asia is an extremely dynamic process. Using … "regionalism cycle." The institutional outcome of regionalism in Asia has been cyclical because the game played by Japan and the …