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Globalization in the past few decades has facilitated the growth of economies and individuals that possess mobile capital and knowledge. However, the situation of less educated workers did not improve as expected because the possibilities for employers to adopt technology, outsourcing, or moving elsewhere serve to keep their bargaining power low. Gaps are widening between less educated and educated workers and between developing and developed economies. This paper suggests that a closer cooperation among Japan, the newly industrial economies and Southeast Asia in monitoring and facilitating short-term labor migration can be a positive factor in narrowing the gaps. Enhancing the skill formation functions of the migration process and upgrading the skills of workers in labor importing economies are among the critical areas that would benefit from regional cooperation.

Myanmar in ASEAN : regional cooperation experience -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Southeast Asia, Myanmar and ASEAN -- 2. ASEAN: Evolution of Regional Cooperation in Southeast Asia -- 3. Political and Economic Development of Myanmar: An Overview -- 4. Myanmar in ASEAN -- 5. Myanmar-ASEAN Cooperation for Development -- 6. Conclusion: Issues and Challenges -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Appendix:Basic ASEAN Documents Appendix I: The ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration), 8 August 1967 -- Appendix II: Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality Declaration (Kuala Lumpur Declaration), 27 November 1971 -- Appendix III: Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, Indonesia, 24 February 1976 -- Appendix III: (a): Protocol Amending the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, Philippines, 15 December 1987 -- Appendix III: (b): Second Protocol Amending the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia -- Appendix IV: Declaration of ASEAN Concord, Indonesia, 24 February 1976 -- Appendix V: Hanoi Plan of Action -- Appendix VI: ASEAN Vision 2020 -- Appendix VII: Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone -- Appendix VIII: Agreement on the Common Effective Preferential -- Appendix VIII: (a): Protocol to Amend the Agreement on the Common Effective Preferential Tariff Scheme for the ASEAN Free Trade Area -- Appendix IX: Joint Statement on East Asia Cooperation, 28 November 1999 -- Index.

China's rise has inspired a variety of interpretations arguing for either its potentially disruptive or alternatively its benign impact on Asia–Pacific security. This article aims to contribute to this debate. It focuses on the upsurge in Beijing's multilateral diplomacy since the beginning of the 1990s, which has been reflected in China's willingness to take part in many regional institutions, such as Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Six Party Talks (6PT), East Asia Summit (EAS) or Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). But what are China's motivations for participation in these institutions? Are they instrumental, driven by pragmatic self-interest, or moral, driven by normative values of peace? Or, has China merely accepted the need to play a socially 'appropriate' role within the region? The article offers a theoretically informed typology of the different kinds of motivation that can explain China's multilateral diplomacy in the last three decades. It argues that whereas social motivation played a decisive part in the first phase of China's multilateralism, instrumental motivation can be seen as defining the more recent phase.

Alphabetische Liste asiatischer Regional-Organisationen. Die verschiedenen Regime in Indochina (Kambodscha, Laos, Vietnam). Mitgliedsstrukturen dieser Länder in asiatischen Regional-Organisationen. Veränderung der Mitgliedschaften seit 1950. (HWWA-Inst. f. Wirtschaftsforschung)

Examines political, economic, and security crises, in context of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC); prospects and policy recommendations.

"Global and Regional Cooperation on Migration" published on by Oxford University Press.