Community-building with Pacific Asia : a report to the Trilateral Commission
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Bibliographic Information
Community-building with Pacific Asia : a report to the Trilateral Commission
(The Triangle papers, 51)
Trilateral Commission, 1997
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Discussed at the Trilateral Commission meeting in Tokyo on March 22-24, 1997"
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"In the past three years," as the authors of this book write, "the frontier of the accelerating late industrial revolution has moved beyond Japan to the rest of East and Southeast Asia. The economic take-off of this region...is of historic significance for several reasons: The pace of economic and social change is faster than for any previous area or era.... With 1.8 billion people, the countries of Pacific Asia are much more populous than the original core areas.... In the developing countries of Pacific Asia, modernization is taking place in societies which have long historical traditions and cultures quite different from those of the West."
The thrust of this book is the need for "community-building" with the emerging East and Southeast Asia on the part of the "Trilateral" areas--Japan, North America, and Europe. "If Pacific Asia joins the Trilateral world as a region of economic prosperity, security, and good government, the countries within a 'zone of peace' will be dramatically extended." Recommendations focus on enhancing international security, continued economic progress, domestic and regional political stability, and accommodating Pacific Asia as "partners in a global community."
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