Asia-Pacific diplomacy [[electronic resource] ] : nongovernmental organizations and international relations / / Lawrence T. Woods

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782064703321
• Autore: Woods Lawrence Timothy <1960->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Vancouver, : UBC Press, c1993
• ISBN: 1-283-22575-1; 9786613225757; 0-7748-5466-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Collana: Canada and international relations, , 0847-0510 ; ; 7
• Disciplina: 337.1/1823
• Soggetti: Pacific Area cooperation; Non-governmental organizations - Pacific Area; Non-governmental organizations - East Asia; Pacific Area Foreign economic relations; East Asia Foreign economic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references: p. [211]-247 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Pacific Economic Cooperation Movement -- INGOs, International Relations, and Diplomacy -- The Institute of Pacific Relations -- The Pacific Trade and Development Conference -- The Pacific Basin Economic Council -- The Pacific Economic Cooperation Council -- The PECC Process in Action -- Conclusion: Asia-Pacific Diplomacy, INGOs, and Regional Economic Cooperation -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The emergence of Asia-Pacific regionalism, as witnessed by the increasing influence of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum and the annual ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference, highlights one of the major trends in late twentieth-century geopolitics and international relations. Asia-Pacific Diplomacy traces the evolution of the Pacific economic cooperation movement by examining the diplomatic contributions of three international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) -- the scholarly Pacific Trade and Development Conference ; (PAFTAD), the business-oriented Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC), and the multipartite (academic, business, and government) Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC). Lawrence Woods also provides a historical perspective by assessing the work of the Institute of Pacific Relations, forerunner of the INGOs. This book makes an important contribution to the study of international political and economic institutions. It argues that as the regional cooperation movement expands at the governmental level. an understanding of the nongovernmental roots of that movement is required if the diplomatic contributions of the INGOs are to be retained.