Regional economic integration has become a key force in international commercial policy in the 2000s. Europe has traditionally embraced regionalism; the United States became actively involved in preferential trading arrangements only in the 1980s. While Asia has been late in accepting formal...

Key Features:It has a series of chapters on the European experience, and how they might apply to new regional initiatives in East AsiaIt includes an extensive documentation and analysis of East Asian integration proposals and analyzes their respective economic and political meritsSome chapters...