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The concept of economic cooperation in the Pacific is gaining increasing recognition among the nations of the region. Since its inception in 1980, the Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference (PECE) has seen rapid development. The paper discusses the PECC's potential to evolve into a forum for meaningful policy, the rationale for economic cooperation in the Pacific, the relative decline of U.S. power in the region, key issues affecting PECC's future etc. (DÜI-Sen)

Bergin reviews 'Calming the Waters: Initiatives for Asia Pacific Maritime Cooperation' edited by Sam Bateman and Stephens Bates, and 'The Seas Unite: Maritime Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region' edited by Sam Bateman and Stephen Bates.

"Many scholars of international relations in Asia regard bilateralism and multilateralism as alternative and mutually exclusive approaches to security co-operation in the region, arguing that eventually multilateral associations such as ASEAN will in time replace the system of bilateral alliances which were the predominant form of security co-operation in Cold War times and which continue as the primary means of the United States' engagement with the region, for example the US alliances with Japan and South Korea. This book contends, on the other hand, that bilateralism and multilateralism are not mutually exclusive, and that bilateralism is likely to continue strong even as multilateralism strengthens"--Provided by publisher

The Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC) was established in 1968 through the initiatives taken by the Japanese and Australian business leaders. This article focuses on the ideas and activities of the Japanese and Australian business leaders in the establishment of PBEC, especially those of Nagano Shigeo and W.R.C. Anderson, both of whom devoted themselves to the establishment of PBEC, while cooperating with each other. The central questions posed are: how and why Nagano and Anderson came to consider it desirable to establish an economic institution in the Asia Pacific region in the mid‐1960s; how and why those ideas were refined and transformed into the establishment of PBEC; what approaches business leaders in other countries took towards Pacific cooperation and how the Japanese and Australians adjusted different interests of people in other countries in organising PBEC. Finally, the article assesses the role played by PBEC in the development of economic cooperation in Asia and the Pacific and insists that it should help set up foundations for the subsequent organisations of regional economic institutions such as the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.

Lecture. Several postwar cooperative efforts; emphasis on the Association of South East Asian Nations and the Pacific Economic Community movement.