In its first ten years, what has the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) accomplished? Has the 21-member forum - including the United States, Japan, China, Mexico, and most of Southeast Asia -- fulfilled its promise? To answer these vital questions, leading scholars at APEC Study Centres from thirteen APEC member economies undertook detailed studies of such central issues as trade in servi…
APEC is an experimental multilateralism, relying not on a large bureaucracy but rather upon national government agencies, semi-autonomous inter-govermental committees and "virtual" associations. Organized around the principles of enforced through monitoring and robust compliance mechanisms. This volume assesses the strengths and weaknesses of APEC's "soft" institutionalism, and it's the credibi…
There is at last a lucid, penetrating and comprehensive guidebook for U.S. policy in the Third World. And Richard Feinberg has written it. The Intemperate Zone displays encyclopedic knowledge at the command of a mind equally at home with strategic and moral issues. A gracefully written book for experts and amateurs alike