Increasing numbers of free trade and economic partnership agreements have been concluded among many countries in East Asia, and economic integration has progressed rapidly on both a de facto and de jure basis. However, as the authors of this book argue, integration may intensify regional...

The prospects and value of economic integration and regionalism in Asia are increasingly evident in what could turn out to be ‘the Asian Century’. It is within this context that this important book explores the critical economic issues, security concerns and political themes pertinent to...

American primacy and Europeanist responses / Peter Gowan -- European integration and the future of nation state / Jaime Pastor -- Globalization, transnational corporations and human rights / Chinsung Chung -- The European experience : the millionfold trauma of the 20th century is still virulent...