Pacific Cooperation brings together distinguished scholars to assess the literature on international regimes and to explore the relevance of organisations such as NAFTA, GATT, CSCE, and the EU for the Asia-Pacific region.

Long divided by cultural, economic, and political differences, the Asia-Pacific region has little history of multilateral cooperation. Alliances that once linked individual countries with one or the other superpower fostered deep mistrust among neighbouring states. The end of the Cold War, however, has created new opportunities for multilateral coo