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's Republic of China [PRC])2 in the 1940s and 1950s, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) since 1967, and Indonesia … in the context of Asia as a whole) have lacked the necessary resources. The result has been that while the ASEAN …
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In the last decade, East Asia has engaged in constructing numerous mechanisms to enhance regional cooperation in the areas of trade and finance. However, the region's economic architecture exhibits certain idiosyncrasies such as an eclectic institutional structure and a limited level of...
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architecture led by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) - was motivated by four changes in the regional economic … landscape: (i) the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and emergence of the ASEAN+3 grouping; (ii) the rise of the People's Republic … TPP trade negotiations. The second is represented by the Asia-only ASEAN+3 framework, a shallowly institutionalized …
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The rapid economic growth in the region consisting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People …
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(ASEAN) in the coming two decades. To simplify what is a hugely complex and wide-ranging set of issues, I divide the security … challenges facing ASEAN into six broad categories. These include (1) the shifting balance of power in the Asia Pacific region …, triggered mainly, if not exclusively, by the dramatic rise of the People's Republic of China (PRC); (2) the persistence of intra-ASEAN …
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current problems from the perspective of Asian countries, in particular the ASEAN+3 countries, which have achieved some … hold valuable lessons for the ASEAN+3 countries as they chart their own course toward regional integration. Given that the … level of integration among the ASEAN+3 countries is much lower than that in the EU, it would be unwise to draw lessons, both …
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The Asia and Pacific region and Latin American and Caribbean region are two regions divided not only by vast geographic distance, but also by disparities in economics, politics, culture, and history. Most recently, a number of forums explored the possibility of closing such gaps and linking the...
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The formation of regional production networks in East Asia has occurred mainly through market forces, without much help from regional institutions in promoting the creation of a single Asian market. While this approach has served the region well in the past, the drastic changes experienced since...
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"regional connectivity" programs that have also been championed by Japan and ASEAN countries, such as the GMS, CAREC, and …
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Since the early 1990s, regional trade agreements (RTAs) covering trade in services have proliferated, with 95 RTAs on services notified to the World Trade Organization (WTO) under Article V of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), as of June 2011. This paper discusses how RTAs...
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