As Asia grows and prospers, its economies are increasingly vital to each other -and to the world. Led by a team of ADB staff, scholars, and advisers to regional

"China is so large that its trading interests and influence are global. But its interests are disproportionately powerful in its immediate Western Pacific and A

Provides the first systematic analysis of new Asian regionalism as a paradigm shift in international economic law.

Prior to the initiation of economic reforms and trade liberalization 36 years ago, China maintained policies that kept the economy very poor, stagnant, centrall