From Apec To Xanadu

Author : Donald C. Helleman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131550300X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Apec to Xanadu written by Donald C. Helleman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes the concerns that must be addressed if Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is to be a viable component of the post-Cold War international order, such as what the future role of the USA who made Asia's transformation possible since 1945, is as a leader in that region. The economic analysis of legal and regulatory issues need not be limited to the neoclassical economic approach. The expert contributors to this work employ a variety of heterodox legal-economic theories to address a broad range of legal issues. They demonstrate how these various approaches can lead to very different conclusions concerning the role of the law and legal intervention in a wide array of contexts. The schools of thought and methodologies represented here include institutional economics, new institutional economics, socio-economics, social economics, behavioral economics, game theory, feminist economics, Rawlsian economics, radical economics, Austrian economics, and personalist economics. The legal and regulatory issues examined include anti-trust and competition, corporate governance, the environment and natural resources, land use and property rights, unions and collective bargaining, welfare benefits, work-time regulation and standards, sexual harassment in the workplace, obligations of employers and employees to each other, crime, torts, and even the structure of government. Each contributor brings a different emphasis and provides thoughtful, sometimes provocative analysis and conclusions. Together, these heterodox insights will provide valuable supplementary reading for courses in law and economics as well as public policy and business courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Author : Melvin Gurtov
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742508514
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Asia? written by Melvin Gurtov and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of Asia-Pacific security are marked by pessimism and continuing belief in the virtues of a balance of power. Pacific Asia? goes against the grain by pointing to a number of positive developments--especially economic--in regional relationships, the absence of an arms race, the growth of multilateral groups, and an emerging consensus on the importance of nonmilitary paths to national security. Above all, Mel Gurtov stresses a definition of security that focuses on basic human needs, social justice, and environmental protection. The author disagrees with proponents of a China threat, criticizes U.S. Cold War notions of security through forward-based power, and argues for new efforts at regional dialogue based on multilateral cooperation, sensitivity to Asian nationalism, and a role for Japan as a 'global civilian power.'

Author : Hung-Mao Tien
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315292076
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Security Environment in the Asia-Pacific written by Hung-Mao Tien and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multilateral security forums in the Asia Pacific region have evolved, but bilateral defence alliances continue to form the principle pillars of national security for most nations in the region. This text presents a survey of issues confronting the Asia-Pacific region as it enters year 2000.

Author : Ellis S. Krauss
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415275163
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan and North America: The postwar written by Ellis S. Krauss and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection makes available key articles on the Japan-North American relationship from the Meiji era to the present. Volume one focuses on the necessity of Japanese modernization post-1868 and examines the build-up to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour. Volume two looks at the post-war period, in which US forces occupied Japan and were instrumental in its rebuilding as an economic superpower. In the years following this Japan and North America enjoyed a close yet occasionally fraught relationship, as competitors and allies. Volume two also examines the cultural ramifications of the influence of North America on Japan, and vice versa. Titles also available in this series include, Japan and South East Asia: International Relations (2001, 2 volumes, 295) and the forthcoming title Japanese Linguistics (2005, 3 volumes, c.425).

Author : Peter Drysdale
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1922144576
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book APEC and Liberalisation of the Chinese Economy written by Peter Drysdale and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book assembles papers that were produced under a three year collaborative research program on 'China and APEC' undertaken by the AustraliaJapan Research Centre, in the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management at The Australian National University and the APEC Policy Research Center, in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. ... The work on this project and the papers in the volume provide a base for developing ideas that could be helpful to the policy agenda for APEC 2001."--Preface.

Author : A. Miyashita
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230107478
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific written by A. Miyashita and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-11-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific aims to provide a broadened framework for examining Japan's foreign policy making by looking at conversion and diversion of interests among Japanese and American policy actors. These include governmental and non-governmental as well as domestic and transnational actors. Utilizing this theoretical framework, the contributors examine the role of U.S. pressure and its interaction with Japan's domestic and Japan-based transnational actors' interests through geographically or thematically focused case studies from Asia and the Pacific regions.

Author : Werner Draguhn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136130500
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) written by Werner Draguhn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) was founded in 1989. Since then the forum has developed into a major player in tri-partite relations between North America, East Asia and Europe. The Seattle and Bogor Summits were landmark events suggesting to many observers a gravitational shift in the world economy and world politics. Yet the Asian financial crisis had a sobering effect on high-flying expectations as APEC contributed little to crisis management. In the light of such contradictory performance, distinguished scholars here examine APEC's achievements and failures, its role and functions in international relations, its linkages with regional organisations and the interplay between the forum and national interests of major factors in the region.

Author : Joseph A. Camilleri
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781957981
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regionalism in the New Asia-Pacific Order written by Joseph A. Camilleri and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific is a complex and rapidly evolving phenomenon. This volume explores the relationship between globalization and regionalization, between states, markets and civil society, and between US hegemony and Asian aspirations.

Author : Richard E Feinberg
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9812302093
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book APEC as an Institution written by Richard E Feinberg and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2003 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the strengths and weaknesses of APEC's 'soft' institutionalism, and its capstone policy report, identifies reforms that would close the credibility gap between APEC's promises and accomplishments. Leading scholars at APEC Study Centres investigate APEC's core agenda and delve into the inner workings of bureaucracy.

Author : Mohamed Ariff
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9812300201
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book APEC & Development Co-operation written by Mohamed Ariff and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1998 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional form of official development assistance (ODA) has assumed less importance. With more liberalized conditions fostering a more open economic environment in the developing countries, private resources and multilateral bank lending have assumed a leading role. This means that those countries not favouring open policies will be left behind while they rely on ODA as the only resource -- yet this resource is declining.Following the devastations caused by the 1997 Asian Currency Crisis, it is clear that coherent APEC guidance to create sufficiency in infrastructure is necessary. A reassessment of ODA for infrastructure is recommended while not demeaning the dependence of some poorer nations on the traditonal form of development assistance.