Europe and Asia followed very different paths to economic integration after 1945. By 2000, an economic union with free …-called WTO+ issues). The outcome will be greater economic integration in Europe and Asia of countries seeking to benefit from … globalization, and, while Asia and Europe will lead the process, it will be open to any willing partners. …

policy implications / Kiyoshi Kojima -- Economic development in East Asia : doing what comes naturally? / James Riedel … economic zones : a new motive force in Asia-Pacific development / Chia Siow Yue and Lee Tsao Yuan -- Sub-regional economic …. Petri -- Open regionalism : the nature of Asia Pacific integration / Peter Drysdale, Andrew Elek and Hadi Soesastro -- Is …

Drysdale and David Vines (eds), Europe, East Asia and APEC: A Shared Global Agenda?, Chapter 5, Cambridge, UK and Melbourne … Asia. Early debates centered on the advantages and disadvantages of joining the global economy as exporters to the high …-income countries, while trade within Asia was of minor importance. Increasingly, however, trade spilled across Asian borders, and as …