Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order

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 fueled a reassessment by many Asia Pacific nations about the structure and form of future economic and political cooperation and development. This book, featuring contributions from some of the most eminent and influential economists and political scientists in the region, examines the forces reshaping the Asia Pacific economic order, and where they lead. The questions this book seeks to answer are the origins of the shift towards policy driven integration, what new structures might eventually emerge on both sides of the Pacific, the ways in which that shift will affect the progress of economic integration and how cross-Pacific relations will therefore be affected. This discussion directs attention to the fact that economic cooperation and security arecomplementary.