Expanding trade with East Asia’s "Big Three" economic giants - the People's Republic of China (PRC), Japan, and the … actively pursuing trade liberalization with the Big Three. The central objective of this paper is to qualitatively and … quantitatively assess the different permutations of ASEAN’s free trade agreements (FTAs) with the Big Three (e.g., ASEAN-PRC, ASEAN …

This paper investigates the effect of trade integration on military conflict. Our empirical analysis,based on a large … panel data set of 290,040 country-pair observations from 1950 to 2000, confirms that an increase in bilateral trade … interdependence and global trade openness significantly promotes peace. It also suggests that the effect of trade openness varies …

The ninth Round of multilateral trade negotiations (MTNs) is to be launched at the end of November 1999 in Seattle. It … Round skillfully because what transpires tin the Rouns will have an enormous impact on the trade performance of these …