Titlebook: Asia-Pacific Economic and Security Co-operation; New Regional Agendas Christopher M. Dent Book 2003 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmi

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New Economic and Security Co-operation in the Asia-Pacific:An Introduction, yet at the same time illustrate the ‘complex diversity’ of the trans-region. This latter aspect has made endeavours to advance co-operative relations somewhat arduous: with ‘complex diversity’ invariably comes a critical lack of common ground and inherent shared interest required for such relation

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Asia-Pacific Economic Regionalism: Global Constraints and Opportunitiesegionalism has fallen far short of politicians’ rhetoric. For example, in the field of economic co-operation through regional trade agreements (RTAs), the World Trade Organization (WTO) has noted that the Asia Pacific is ‘the region with the smallest number of RTAs currently in force’ (WTO 2000: 22)

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ASEAN: Challenged from Within and Withoute forest-fires on Kalimantan and elsewhere in Indonesia sending pollutants now annually into the atmosphere, the euphemistically named ‘haze’ remains a significant economic and environmental problem. On the ground a variety of transnational problems are threatening the stability of the region. These

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Democratization: A Threat to Peace and Stability in Southeast Asia?ratic peace, there is also cause for concern. Since not all ASEAN member states have experienced a transition to democracy, this leaves Southeast Asia as a zone of ‘mixed state’ dyads (i.e. democracies and non-democracies), which are more likely to fight wars than either ‘democratic state’ dyads or

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Regionalism Online: A Case Study of e-ASEANles of PTAs is the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Whilst much has already been said in the current literature about the major regional PTAs (e.g. the EU), the impact of the global communications revolution (arguably the most important globalising factor) on the development of regio