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The Ebb and Flow of Regional Integration Vision in Asia-Pacific: From A Lens of Leaders’ Declarations over 30 Years

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  • Suh, Jeongmeen

    (Soongsil University)

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This paper examines how APEC has transformed itself into an international forum for the vision of regional integration. It aims to quantify the documentation produced by the international organization and provide quantifiable evidence that aligns with prior knowledge rather than relying solely on intuition. For this purpose, I use various text mining techniques to extract multi-dimensional features from the text of APEC Leaders’ Declarations from 1993 to 2023. In terms of interest and expectations for APEC as a forum, it is found that members have experienced two major peaks and troughs over the last three decades. It is found that the change point coincides with the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and the tensions between the United States and China since 2017. To explore more various aspects of economic integration in the Asia-Pacific region, this study also considers how consistently APEC has been an international forum for addressing issues, which members are active, and how members have clustered based on their views of APEC.

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  • Suh, Jeongmeen, 2023. "The Ebb and Flow of Regional Integration Vision in Asia-Pacific: From A Lens of Leaders’ Declarations over 30 Years," East Asian Economic Review, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, vol. 27(4), pages 303-325, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:eaerev:0426
    DOI: 10.11644/KIEP.EAER.2023.27.4.426
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    Keywords

    APEC; Asia-Pacific Region; Bogor Goals; Regional Integration; Text-as-data; Text-mining Analysis;
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    JEL classification:

    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade

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