"This book was published as the fruit of a three-year and five-year research between 2008-2011 and 2008-2013 respectively about the 'The enlarged EU and East Asian regional cooperation in the international politics - integration, security and social security.'"--p. 1

Regional economic integration through logistics, information network and connectivity improvement can increase the 'virtual size' of an economy as trade with neighboring countries increases. This leads to substantial benefits from scale, network, coordination and agglomeration economies. As is...