paper aims to identify the trade agenda that represents Asia's concerns for the global and regional trading system. Asia, in … particular East Asia, has played an important role in evolving the global production and trade networks. The regional production … network in East Asia became the major transmission mechanism of the crisis, resulting in a trade collapse, but Asia …

1 The Chinese Birdcage -- 2 Western Triumphalism -- 3 China as the World's Factory -- 4 Housing Bubbles across the … 1980s, China quickly became the world’s factory floor...but powerful political leaders envisioned a world in which the … market economy would be trapped within the confines of a planned economy. With China’s admission into the World Trade …

This book discusses the economic and geopolitical effects of globalization from historical and institutional …, the overall benefits of globalization far outweigh the costs. Moak argues that leading developed nations should not fear … globalization but, instead, make concerted efforts to promote it in order to keep the cost-benefit balance weighing in favor of …

institutions” which have often been criticized for not having provided solutions to economic troubles. The role of the World Trade … world has drastically changed since the end of the Second World War and also (partially) from the 1995 period when the WTO … was created. New actors have emerged as China, Brazil, South Africa (and Russia) which are raising their voice during the …