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Introduction / Michael G. Plummer and Erik Jones -- 1. East Asian economic regionalism: progress and challenges / Masahiro Kawai -- 2. Sequencing regional integration in Asia / Richard Pomfret -- 3. ASEAN+3: is an economic community in their future? / James Angresano -- 4. Stock market performance in ASEAN: is institutional integration warranted? / Reid W. Click and Michael G. Plummer -- 5. The institution of a single currency area: lessons for Asia from the European Monetary Union / Sergio Rossi -- 6. Deep integration and its impacts on non-members: EU enlargement and East Asia / Hiro Lee and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe -- 7. Small change: a critical examination of the economic relationship between South Asia and the European Union / Jonathan W. Moses and Maggi Brigham -- 8. The effects of North-South regional trade policies: a comparison of Mediterranean countries with ASEAN / Nicolas Péridy -- 9. Reconciling the tensions between regional integration and cohesion / Mary Farrell -- 10. Lessons for Asia? Legitimacy and quasi-democratic mechanisms in European and American market integration / Craig Parsons and J. David Richardson.

Demonstrates that international economic integration is an economic and political process that also involves political economy. This book also examines the types of organizations that exemplify international economic integration, such as colonial empires, merchant associations, religious empires, criminal empires, free trade areas, and more

WHILE THE EXTENT OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION IS GROWING, THIS TREND IS NEITHER NEW NOR UNIFORM. AN ECONOMICALLY BORDERLESS WORLD DOES NOT NOW EXIST, NOR IS IT IN PROSPECT; AND THE WORLD ECONOMY TODAY IS FURTHER AWAY FROM FULL INTEGRATION THAN IT WAS BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR. WHETHER AND HOW FAR THE TREND TOWARDS INTEGRATION WILL CONTINUE IS NOT PREDETERMINED, BUT DEPENDS ON GOVERNMENTS. THE MOST DIFFICULT ISSUES OF INTEGRATION RELATE TO CROSS-BORDER MIGRATION, WHICH IS NOW A LEADING ITEM ON THE INTERNATIONAL AGENDA.