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The export oriented economies in East and Southeast Asia have formed one of the most vibrant regions in the world. Due to their openness they have enjoyed increasing shares in world trade. Concomitant with their integration into the world market, the countries of the region have developed closer economic relations in terms of trade links and financial interdependence among each other. Especially, the governments of the ASEAN countries are pursuing a strategy of explicitly encouraging the exchange of goods and factors of production by extending regional trade preferences to each other as well as through other measures of industrial and financial cooperation (See Devan, 1987; Hiemenz, Naya, 1985; Amelung, 1989). For some ASEAN members, however, bilateral economic relations with non-member countries such as the USA, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea have still remained more important than those within the ASEAN group.

The United States' involvement in the market-driven regional economic integration began with the promotion of trade interdependence between East Asian economies after World War II as a way to counterbalance Communist expansion. Its incorporation of China into the regional economy since the end of the 1970s has indirectly created a potential competitor for itself. The United States' active promotion of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement shows America's anxiety about its declining influence in the region.

Der Autor resümiert den Diskussionsverlauf eines Symposiums (Makaha, Hawaii, 28.11.-1.12.1980), über die Möglichkeiten einer Stärkung der ökonomischen Kooperation in der asiatisch-pazifischen Region durch Schaffung einer Pazifischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft. In diesem Zusammenhang wurden von den Konferenzteilnehmern die seinerzeitige politische und ökonomische Situation, die Sicherheitslage und die Rolle der USA und Japans in dieser Region diskutiert, die Konzeption der Pazifischen Gemeinschaft erörtert und zukünftige Entwicklungstrends prognostiziert. (BIOst-Klk)

This volume examines the dichotomy between the two faces of South Asia - one poverty stricken and lagging in development, the other highly urbanized and growing rapidly - and tries to find a workable solution to bridge this gap. It looks at the many policy and institutional constraints that contribute to this dichotomy, especially regional conflict that has made South Asia one of the least integrated regions of the world