Focuses both on specific regional organizations like ASEAN, The Asian Development Bank and APEC, as well as on key institutions such as East Asian legal systems, the media, organized labour, Asian business systems, and the developmental state

Regional cooperation and integration have emerged as key issues for East Asia following the financial crisis. This book explores these issues, and examines the degree to which a new paradigm is emerging

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List Of Abbreviations -- Introduction And Overview -- European Perspectives -- The WTO, Governments and Global Business: Who Decides the Shape of International Trade Relations? -- Deepening of Multilateral...

This scholarly and interdisciplinary volume sheds much needed light on the realtionship between national policies, regional integration patterns and the wider global setting. It covers regional patterns in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Individual chapters focus on topics ranging from industrial...

"Analyzes developments in the region since the mid-1980s, highlighting such factors as the evolution of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, the impact of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, and the rise of China. Outlines possible future scenarios for the region and offers policy prescriptions...

"Within NAFTA, explores interactions between regionalism and multilateralism, the impact of the "new trade" agenda, and unresolved problems--migration, security, and energy. Discusses NAFTA's relationship to the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas negotiations and the Doha Development Round and...

The debates over what African economic integration and development actually entails continue across international economic organizations, national governments and NGOs. Looking closely at these processes, this book combines theory with application, enumerating the imperatives and initiatives...

Since the 1990s, regional organizations of the United Nations and international financial institutions have adopted a new dynamic of transnational integration, within the framework of the regionalization process of globalization. In place of the growth triangles of the 1970s, a strategy based on...