TY  - BOOK
ED  - Armstrong, Shiro
ED  - Westland, Tom
AB  - The Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) conference series has been at the forefront of analysing challenges facing the economies of East Asia and the Pacific since its first meeting in Tokyo in January 1968. The 38th PAFTAD conference met at a key time to consider international economic integration. Earlier in the year, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and the United States elected Donald Trump as their next president on the back of an inward-looking ‘America First’ promise. Brexit and President Trump represent a growing, and worrying, trend towards protectionism in the North Atlantic countries that have led the process of globalisation since the end of the Second World War.  The chapters in the volume describe the state of play in Asian economic integration but, more importantly, look forward to the region’s future, and the role it might play in defending the global system that has underwritten its historic rise. Asia has the potential to stand as a bulwark against the dual threats of North Atlantic protectionism and slowing trade growth, but collective leadership will be needed regionally and difficult domestic reforms will be required in each country.
DO  - 10.22459/AEIEGU.01.2018
ID  - OAPEN ID: 643793
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030817069
KW  - asia
KW  - economic policy
KW  - trade
KW  - globalisation
KW  - Association of Southeast Asian Nations
KW  - China
KW  - East Asia
KW  - Free-trade area
KW  - India
KW  - International trade
KW  - Japan
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/bdae098c-2d8c-4e53-a5bd-5dadef15f713/643793.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30703
PB  - ANU Press
PY  - 2018
TI  - Asian Economic Integration in an Era of Global Uncertainty (PAFTAD)null
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