Crisis studies and the near east: The cases of Lebanon and Cyprus†

This paper is about the relationship between foreign trade and national power in the contemporary Asia Pacific. Imports and exports among the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Community) members are studied over time in order to assess the extent to which this trade has evolved in ways which ceteris paribus provide the larger trading states with more or less leverage to influence the smaller ones. We offer a conceptual discussion of conditions that are likely to shape the incentives to actually use such leverage and, if actually exercised, the prospects that such attempts may succeed. A pattern analysis of trade in the Asia Pacific then follows from which we conclude that the smaller non‐Latin American APEC countries have diversified their trading partners recently and thus reduced their exposure to leverage based on asymmetric dependence in their trade relations. At the same time, we expect from our conceptual discussion that the larger APEC countries are generally more likely to exercise self restraint than to use trade to extract gains on other issues.     

APEC的成就、发展方向和上海会议

文章全面总结了APEC的主要成就,分析了APEC未来的发展方向,并对2001年APEC上海会议举行的背景和议程进行了阐述.     

APEC拉美成员亚太区域经济一体化战略探析

作为APEC拉美成员,墨西哥、智利和秘鲁对亚太区域经济一体化问题给予了高度关注。拉美3国在积极参与APEC贸易投资自由化进程的同时,还在亚太地区缔结了多个FTA。通过APEC策略和FTA策略的有机结合,APEC拉美成员形成了多元化的亚太区域经济一体化战略,不仅为自身带来了显著的经济收益,也为亚太区域经济一体化进程注入了新的活力。