Cooperation or Rivalry?: Regional Integration in the Americas and the Pacific Rim

by Peter H. Smith and Shoji Nishijima

Authorities and experts in Japan and other Asian countries have expressed considerable fear that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) will create a "Fortress America" that will deliberately exclude nations of the Pacific Rim. Others argue that economic integration will provide substantial opportunity for Asia/Pacific countries and thus contribute to the dynamism of the "Pacific Century"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813321107
• ISBN13: 9780813321103
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"