paper aims to identify the trade agenda that represents Asia's concerns for the global and regional trading system. Asia, in … particular East Asia, has played an important role in evolving the global production and trade networks. The regional production … network in East Asia became the major transmission mechanism of the crisis, resulting in a trade collapse, but Asia …

A common view holds that the trend toward Asian financial regionalism is a relatively new phenomenon that became … 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 …

When debating the pros and cons of economic regionalism, haven't we focused enough on trade in goods at the expense of … services? This article argues that regionalism is certainly a building block, not a stumbling block to a multilateral trading … appropriate relationship between multilateralism and regionalism in the context of services. …

Why is Asia lagging behind other regions in creating regional judicial institutions? What lessons from the operation of … judicial institutions elsewhere have also rarely been used to resolve inter-state disputes. The most valuable lesson for Asia … and private parties about the implementation of international law. While Asia lacks an extensive set of regional laws and …