APEC and emerging regionalism in North East Asia

Author: Hwang Hae-du  

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

ISSN: 1610-2932

Source: Asia Europe Journal, Vol.4, Iss.4, 2006-12, pp. : 499-510

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Abstract

This paper explores what kind of regional trade agreement is most likely to emerge in Northeast Asia by tracing the trajectories of APEC. Taking into account the underlying potential of realizing cumulative causation effects between market expansion and technology cooperation among China, Japan and Korea, it reaches the tentative conclusion that a Northeast Asia Regional Trade Agreement (RTA) might take shape in the near future despite the prevalence of polarized versions in the cultural heritage and the international relations between these three countries.