Author: Sir John Grenfell CrawfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Paper presented at the 13th annual meeting of PBEC held in Sydney, 1980.
Pacific Region Interdependencies
Author: Pacific Basin Economic Cooperation
Author: Michael West ObornePublisher: Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; [Washington, D.C. : Sales agents, OECD Publications and Information Center]
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Economic Development and Cooperation in the Pacific Basin
Author: Hiro LeePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521583664
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
First published in 1998, this volume brings together contributions from leading economic analysts around the Pacific Basin, reporting on their research into three of the most important issues facing the region: trade, investment flows, and the environmental effects of economic growth. Each of these issues has important domestic and multilateral ramifications and the Pacific Basin's status as the world's most dynamic economic region makes this analysis relevant to policy makers and researchers in all countries. The collection is unusual in offering appraisals from economists representing the principal economies of the region. Among other contributions in the book are insights into the forces animating regional trade and investment, detailed assessment of leading East Asian economies such as those of China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, and Singapore, and innovative research on economy-environment linkages.
Whose Ideas Matter?
Author: Amitav AcharyaPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080145946X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Asia is a crucial battleground for power and influence in the international system. It is also a theater of new experiments in regional cooperation that could redefine global order. Whose Ideas Matter? is the first book to explore the diffusion of ideas and norms in the international system from the perspective of local actors, with Asian regional institutions as its main focus. There's no Asian equivalent of the EU or of NATO. Why has Asia, and in particular Southeast Asia, avoided such multilateral institutions? Most accounts focus on U.S. interests and perceptions or intraregional rivalries to explain the design and effectiveness of regional institutions in Asia such as SEATO, ASEAN, and the ASEAN Regional Forum. Amitav Acharya instead foregrounds the ideas of Asian policymakers, including their response to the global norms of sovereignty and nonintervention. Asian regional institutions are shaped by contestations and compromises involving emerging global norms and the preexisting beliefs and practices of local actors. Acharya terms this perspective "constitutive localization" and argues that international politics is not all about Western ideas and norms forcing their way into non-Western societies while the latter remain passive recipients. Rather, ideas are conditioned and accepted by local agents who shape the diffusion of ideas and norms in the international system. Acharya sketches a normative trajectory of Asian regionalism that constitutes an important contribution to the global sovereignty regime and explains a remarkable continuity in the design and functions of Asian regional institutions.
Japan Report
Author: The Political Economy of Asian Regionalism
Author: Giovanni CapannelliPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 4431545689
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book contributes to the theoretical and empirical literature on Asian regionalism, with a focus on the innovations needed to reform the current institutional architecture in Asia. After reviewing the key issues and challenges related to the political economy of Asia’s economic cooperation and integration, the book discusses various aspects of regionalism from political and economic perspectives. It looks at the rationale for regional collective action and reviews the trend of economic integration with a focus on the implications of the global financial crisis. In addition to reviewing the key issues related to the development of regional institutions for integration, the book analyzes issues such as trade and finance and deals with the implications of regionalism in terms of the introduction of domestic reforms in Asian countries before discussing the possible formation of a region-wide economic community. The eight chapters of the book are based on respective papers initially prepared for the Asian Development Bank Institute Conference 2010.
The Economic Development of the Pacific Basin
Author: Willy KrausPublisher: London : C. Hurst & Company
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Perspectives on Japan and Korea
Author: Henrik Hjort SorensenPublisher: NIAS Press
ISBN: 9788787062121
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Author: Ippei YamazawaPublisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
ISBN: 9814515914
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Ippei Yamazawa is one of the fathers to the study of Asia-Pacific regional cooperation in Japan and has contributed hugely to the development and work of APEC over many years. APEC is a crucial trans-regional arrangement that draws the United States into constructive economic engagement with East Asia. This book makes it clear why APEC remains such a crucial element of regional economic architecture and defines an agenda going forward to which regional leaders should aspire. Here is a first rate exposition of the priorities for regional cooperation in Asia and the Pacific. --Peter Drysdale, Professor Emeritus, Australian National University
The Diplomatic History of Postwar Japan
Author: Makoto IokibePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135267359
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Winner of the prestigious Yoshida Shigeru Prize 1999 for the best book in public history when it was published in its original Japanese, this book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Japan’s international relations from the end of the Pacific War to the present. Written by leading Japanese authorities on the subject, it makes extensive use of the most recently declassified Japanese documents, memoirs, and diaries. It introduces the personalities and approaches Japan’s postwar leaders and statesmen took in dealing with a rapidly changing world and the challenges they faced. Importantly, the book also discusses the evolution of Japan’s presence on the international stage and the important – if underappreciated role – Japan has played. The book examines the many issues which Japan has had to confront in this important period: from the occupation authorities in the latter half 1940s, to the crisis-filled 1970s; from the post-Cold War decade to the contemporary war on terrorism. The book examines the effect of the changing international climate and domestic scene on Japan’s foreign policy; and the way its foreign policy has been conducted. It discusses how the aims of Japan’s foreign relations, and how its relationships with its neighbours, allies and other major world powers have developed, and assesses how far Japan has succeeded in realising its aims. It concludes by discussing the current state of Japanese foreign policy and likely future developments.