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Reassessing APEC's role as a Trans-Regional Economic Architecture: Legal and Policy Dimensions

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This article examines the two-decade evolution of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the future prospects for Asian regionalism. It argues that while APEC retains advantages over competing regional structures, it should undergo reforms to accelerate the Bogor Goals and ensure its complementarity with the World Trade Organization (WTO). The article first analyzes the impact of stake-holding countries' trade policies on APEC's structure and development. By assessing APEC's soft-law mechanism, it explores APEC's WTO-plus contributions that reinvigorated the International Technology Agreement negotiations and improved supply chain facilitation. APEC's goal of creating a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) can overcome structural limitations and serve as an effective 'Plan B' for the Doha Round impasse. Nonetheless, caution should be given to legal challenges to the pathways to an FTAAP such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Finally, the article calls for reforms that will enhance APEC's institution-building and monitoring system. Such reforms will strengthen APEC's role under the multilateral trading system and reenergize the public--private partnership for trans-Pacific integration. The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved., Oxford University Press.

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  • Pasha L. Hsieh, 2013. "Reassessing APEC's role as a Trans-Regional Economic Architecture: Legal and Policy Dimensions," Journal of International Economic Law, Oxford University Press, vol. 16(1), pages 119-158, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:jieclw:v:16:y:2013:i:1:p:119-158
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    1. Park, Sang Chul & Kim, Chul Ju & Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad & Sirivunnabood, Pitchaya (ed.), 2021. "Economic Integration in Asia and Europe: Lessons and Policies," ADBI Books, Asian Development Bank Institute, number 18, Décembre.
    2. Emilios Avgouleas & Douglas W. Arner & Uzma Ashraf, 2014. "Regional financial arrangements: lessons from the Eurozone crisis for East Asia," Chapters, in: Iwan J. Azis & Hyun S. Shin (ed.), Global Shock, Risks, and Asian Financial Reform, chapter 10, pages 377-415, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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