ASIAN cooperation, JAPANESE politics & government, 1989-
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The article focuses on the efforts of Japan to campaign for regional cooperation in East Asia. As the country prepares to improve its presence in global politics, it attempts to manage the politico-security and economic affairs in East Asia because of the region's increasing role in the country's peace and prosperity. As part of the country's campaign, Japanese businesses have established two region-wide production and distribution networks, one with Southeast Asia and the other with China.
EAST Asian politics & government, REGIONALISM, INTERNATIONAL relations, ASIAN politics & government, 1945-, CONFERENCES & conventions
Abstract
The East Asia Summit is the newest leaders-led regional organization in the Asia Pacific with a broad mandate and an unclear future. Its membership means that it is stuck halfway between being an East Asian regional body such as the ASEAN+3 process and an Asia-Pacific body such as Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. Expanding the East Asia Summit to include the United States would enhance its ability to be the primary strategic forum in Asia and clearly identify the Summit as on Asia-Pacific body. This would not only improve Asia's regional architecture, but would also serve the interests of the United States, ASEAN, Japan, China and India. The biggest challenge facing this positive development is convincing the United States to sign the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation and overcoming the concerns of the other regional bodies about an enhanced East Asia Summit. In 2009, a new administration in Washington and the EAS meeting in Vietnam will provide a powerfully symbolic opportunity to invite the United States into the East Asia Summit and allow the Summit and the United States to find their proper homes in Asia's evolving regionalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ECONOMIC indicators, GROSS domestic product, ECONOMIC conditions in East Asia
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Presents an empirical study of the determinants of per capita economic growth in the group of economies forming the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Contribution of services to the growth of real gross domestic product per capita; Estimated results of a structural per capita growth equation reveal that growth of services exerts a statistically significant positive effect.
Assesses the major responses of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to the East Asian financial crisis. Measures to promote regional recovery; Co-ordinated policy responses; Institutional innovations for responding to the crisis.