Die Feststellung, daß sich das weltwirtschaftliche Gravitationszentrum zunehmend in den asiatisch-pazifischen Raum verlagert, gehört mittlerweile zu den Gemeinplätzen internationaler Politikanalysen. Mindestens ebenso bemerkenswert ist jedoch die verstärkte innerregionale Kooperation auf...

The proliferation of preferential trade agreements in Asia may result in a number of hub-and-spoke configurations, with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, People's Republic of China, and Japan competing as regional hubs of bilateral free trade areas. Using a newly developed global...

Regionalism and regional integration in East Asia has developed dynamically at various levels over the past two decades. In the world system, East Asia‘s degree of regional economic coherence is second only to the European Union‘s. In addition to deepening micro-level regionalisation, new...