1st Edition

Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order

Edited By Christopher Findlay, Hadi Soesastro Copyright 2006
    304 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    304 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Relationships and alignments among the nations of the world’s most populous and productive region, the Asia Pacific, are in flux. Current global political, economic and security uncertainty, heightened by 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terror, has fuelled a reassessment by many Asia Pacific nations about the structure and form of future economic and political cooperation and development.

    Featuring contributions from some of the most eminent and influential economists and political scientists in the Asia Pacific region, this book explores the forces reshaping the Asia Pacific economic order, and where these changes may lead. Focusing on the origins of the shift towards policy driven integration, the book examines what new structures may eventually emerge on both sides of the Pacific, the ways in which this shift will affect the progress of economic integration and how cross-Pacific relations will therefore be affected.

    1 Peter Drysdale and PAFTAD Ross Garnaut and Hugh Patrick  2 Overview Hadi Soesastro and Christopher Findlay  3 The international trade order: cooperation for economic development Bernard Hoekman  4 Truncated globalisation: the fate of the Asia Pacific economies? Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song  5 Asia Pacific economies and the Doha Development Agenda Bijit Bora and Muhammad Chatib Basri  6 APEC in the emerging international economic order: lame duck or catalyst?  Andrew Elek  7 Rise of East Asian regionalism Chia Siow Yue and Mari Pangestu  8 The free trade area of the Americas: how deep an integration in the Western Hemisphere? Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Sherry Stephenson  9 East Asian regionalism – undermining or underpinning Asia Pacific integration? Robert Scollay 10 The rise of services trade: regional initiatives and challenges for the WTO Philippa Dee and Alexandra Sidorenko  11 The movement of people in the Asia Pacific region Sieh Lee Mei Ling and Ong Fon Sim  12 Asia Pacific regional architecture and financial market integration Wendy Dobson 13 Politico-strategic dimensions of economic cooperation in the Asia Pacific Andrew MacIntyre and Hadi Soesastro

    Biography

    Christopher Findlay is Professor of Economics in the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University, following a period as Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide. Professor Findlay major research interests are regional economic cooperation and trade and investment in services.

    Hadi Soesastro is Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta and Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University. He was a member of the National Economic Council, an advisory council of President Abdurrahman Wahid, from December 1999 to September 2000, and his principal research interests are international trade, regional cooperation and international political economy.

    'This volume offers a solid overview of many topics that are of interest to regional policymakers and academics. The chapters are well written and of uniform quality, making the volume an easy read.' - Asian Pacific Economic Literature, Volume 20, Issue 2

    'The book as a whole does a fine job of bridging research and policy, making results of techinal research, and their implications, comprehensible to non-specialists such as policy makers.' - Richard N. Cooper, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA

    'This book manages a broad coverage of the issue areas potentially involved: trade in goods, of course, but also investment, development of capital markets, financial co-operation, trade in services, migration and a host of other issues.'

    - Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Vol.42, No. 3, 2006