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The Advance—and the Limits—of Trade Integration in Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Heribert Dieter
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After decades of preoccupation with traditional security issues, trade, finance and investment have become key areas of concern to policy makers in Asia, broadly defined to include South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia. Whereas in the past, governments in Asia applied a traditional understanding of security, today ‘economic security’ is part of a broadened concept of security that most countries in Asia apply (Pempel 2010a: 213). Of course, international trade and the efforts to deepen intra-regional trade integration are part of this process.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 34 , August 2012 , e2
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