Σάββατο 25 Μαρτίου 2017

ECONOMIC ORDER IN THE ASIAPACIFIC AND RUSSIAN INTERESTS

Αrt2930 Σαββατο 25 Μαρτίου 2017

Over the past ten years, the Asia-Pacific region has been the global economy’s main center of gravity. The world’s leading nonAsian centers of power, the United States and Russia, almost simultaneously announced their turn to the Asia Pacific and proclaimed the region a main foreign policy priority.

However, the region’s economic order remains unclear, and represents a concentration of diverse and often incompatible projects and regimes, from ASEAN, the region’s most advanced integration project, to APEC, the most broad-based and
inclusive economic cooperation forum. On the one hand, all the major Asia-Pacific economies support further liberalization of the region’s trade and economic regime. On the other hand, there is no agreement as to what rules and regimes this liberalization should be based on and how deep it should be. At the same time, the Asia Pacific’s main power centers, the US and China, seek to shape the economic order in the region to their benefit, so that it mostly reflects their economic interests and geopolitical aspirations. In recent years, polari




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