Regionalism and Rivalry
Subtitle: Japan and the U.S. in Pacific Asia (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)
Contributors: Jeffrey A. Frankel (Editor); Miles Kahler (Editor)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 1, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780226259994
Subjects: International economics; International relations; International Economic Relations; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; History: World; East Asia, Far East; USA; International - Economics; Business & Economics / Economics / International; Asia, Southeastern; Congresses; East Asia; Foreign economic relations; Investments, Japanese; Japan
First sentence: The phenomenal expansion of East Asia's intraregional trade-from $116 billion to $265 billion between 1985 and 1990-has raised the prospect of an East Asian economic bloc that could more than match the scale of either the European or North American trading area.