Assesses the importance of enhanced ASEAN-Japan cooperation as a step toward a greater East Asian regional community. Fifteen international relations experts review the history and current status of this bilateral relationship and propose how it can be strengthened.
The volume is divided into four parts. Part I considers the broad trends in the recent economic performances of the United States and the problem of increasing protectionism. Part II analyses the structural adjustments in both the United States and the developing countries in ASEAN. Part III provides analyses of U.S. ASEAN trade in services from both the U.S. and ASEAN perspectives. Part IV rol…
This book has showen the power and vigour of private enterprise and market forces to spearhead economic development and to spread economic efficiency and welfare world-wide.
Economic relations between the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the countries of the European Community (EC) have a long history as well as great future potential. Merchant adventures, colonialist, traders, and foreign inventors from Europe have in the last two centuries brought about a continous exchange of goods, interests and ideas with Southeast Asia