ASEAN is an enduring regional organization in East Asia. However, its claims to being central to any talks on regional architecture are challenged by a multiplicity of factors both external and internal to it. This paper assesses ASEAN’s centrality by looking into the possible challenges...

A Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) has been proposed as a long-term prospect by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. This paper examines the impact of the FTAAP on the national and regional economies in China using a suite of general equilibrium models: APG-Cubed, a dynamic global...

Facing the trend of globalization, voices within Asia have been calling for deeper Asian integration. In the international economic context, numerous competing visions have been proffered over the years as to what form that integration should take, and which country or countries should lead that...

Regional integration or disintegration? / Adrian H. Hearn and Margaret Myers -- Latin American visions of trans-Pacific integration / Ariel C. Armony, Nashira P. Chávez, and Adrian H. Hearn -- Chinese visions of trans-Pacific integration / Jianmin Jin -- Contending visions : the TPP, the...