Non‐governmental organizations and Pacific cooperation: Back to the future?

Woods, Lawrence T.

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“…In a period of dramatic historical change and uncertainty, these institutions and networks provide the framework within which to broker a set of policy options drawn from the group's normative beliefs and amenable to their causal and explanatory principles (Haas, 1992) While any formal identification of the community would certainly be resisted, PAFTAD, PECC, PBEC and the other organizations and informal processes of regional interaction provide the locus for the reinforcement of shared cooperative norms. It is also accurate to suggest 519 Downloaded by ["Queen's University Libraries, Kingston"] at 11:08 03 February 2015 COMPETING CONCEPTIONS OF ECONOMIC REGIONALISM that a common causal methodology and policy project -to promote regional economic cooperation in the Asia Pacific -can be identified within the community and is encapsulated in the aims of PECC (Higgott, 1993;Woods, 1991Woods, ,1993. Moreover, this policy enterprise underwent a process of expansion throughout the 1980s.…”

Section: Asia Pacific Economic Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Competing conceptions of economic regionalism: APEC versus EAEC in the Asia pacific

Higgott

Stubbs

1995

Review of International Political Economy

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Dramatic economic growth in the Asia Pacific has given rise to a both a scholarly and policy oriented debate about the most appropriate organizational form within which any dialogue over the nature economic policy coordination in the region might take place. The most visible exercise in regional economic dialogue over the last few years has been via the evolution of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC). APEC's increasing international profile does not, however, pass uncontested. Some states, and most vocally Malaysia, exhibit a preference for a more 'Asian' and less 'Pacific' form of regional economic dialogue via the putative East Asian Economic Caucus (EAEC). This paper examines APEC and the EAEC as exemplars of two competing conceptions of regional economic cooperation. The paper demonstrates that enhanced economic dialogue in the Asia Pacific cannot be understood simply in rationalistic, utility maximizing terms. Questions of politics, culture and identity are also shaping up to be extremely important. The outcome of this contest over how an understanding of 'region' in the Asia Pacific will be constituted over the long term is yet to be determined.

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Section: Asia Pacific Economic Cooperationmentioning

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Competing conceptions of economic regionalism: APEC versus EAEC in the Asia pacific

Higgott

Stubbs

1995

Review of International Political Economy

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“…This presented a difficult challenge for the Hawke government; while North America and Europe had well-established institutional structures to promote economic cooperation, similar arrangements were lacking in the region. This was not due to lack of interest: ideas for regional cooperation can be traced back to the 1960s and their evolution was explored in a number of contributions to The Pacific Review (Elek 1991;Harris 1994;Woods 1991). But finding an appropriate vehicle to give institutional form to such aspirations remained elusive.…”

Section: Regional Institution Building and The Apec Initiativementioning

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Twenty years of Australia's engagement with Asia

Capling

2008

The Pacific Review

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For the past two decades, 'engagement with Asia' has been a central theme in Australian public policy and public debate about Australia's place in the world. The commitment to Asian engagement has been shared by both sides of federal politics throughout this period; however, when in government the Labor Party (1983-96) and the Coalition (1996Coalition ( -2007 pursued radically different approaches to this common objective. This article contrasts and evaluates the differing approaches adopted by the Labor and Coalition governments, in the context of the domestic and regional debates and controversies that accompanied them. In particular, it seeks to explain why Australia is more engaged with Asia than ever before, in seeming defiance of the widespread criticism of the Coalition government's particular approach to Asian engagement.

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Economic cooperation: Theoretical opportunities and practical constraints

Higgott

1993

The Pacific Review

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Non‐governmental organizations and Pacific cooperation: Back to the future?

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

Competing conceptions of economic regionalism: APEC versus EAEC in the Asia pacific

Competing conceptions of economic regionalism: APEC versus EAEC in the Asia pacific

Twenty years of Australia's engagement with Asia

Economic cooperation: Theoretical opportunities and practical constraints

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