International economic integration and Asia

Regional economic integration has become a key force in international commercial policy in the 2000's. Europe has traditionally embraced regionalism; the United States became actively involved in preferential trading arrangements only in the 1980's. While Asia has been late in accepting formal regional economic integration accords, all Asian countries are now in the process of creating various free-trade areas and other forms of economic integration programs, and some are already in place. This volume analyzes the regionalism trend from an Asian perspective. It considers the lessons from...