s. While Asia has been late in accepting formal regional economic integration accords, all Asian countries are now in …

respective economic and political meritsSome chapters consider empirical effects of integration outside and inside of Asia and … -- Introduction International Economic Integration And Asia: An Overview -- An Overview of East Asian Integration -- The EU and Asia … -- The Logic of Economic Regionalism in East Asia -- Initiatives for Economic Regionalism -- Challenges for Closer Economic …

Given the rapid emergence of regional economic arrangements in Asia, especially in Southeast Asia, it is useful to … also focuses on the regionalism trend with an explicit application to ASEAN, as well as the implications of regionalism in … ASEAN context from a variety of perspectives and using various techniques, from standard economic analysis of preferential …

ASEAN has been deepening intra-regional integration at the same time that it has been forming various cooperative … configuration for ASEAN? In this paper, we evaluate various economic scenarios for the region in terms of real-sector, financial and … that there would be positive gains from ASEAN integration and the current wave of bilateral free trade areas, but that …

In November 2002, it was proposed at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Heads of Government meeting in … Phnom Penh that the region should consider the possibility of creating an "ASEAN Economic Community" (AEC) by 2020. The name …'s acronym be replaced with "Asia-Pacific Economic Community." This idea was rejected explicitly for fear that it would give the …