05/19/2008
The performance and growing global importance of East Asia is well documented. Yet the story of East Asia’s re-emergence in the 10 years since the Asian Crisis is one of increasing regional integration and cooperation that is driving the region’s growth and development. The challenge that goes beyond East Asia is one of building cooperative regionalism, consistent with an open and expanding global economy. From this perspective, East Asian regional cooperation and integration is still a work in progress.