Multilateral Cooperation

 

Internet Resources and Organizations

Asian Development Bank
        Economics and Statistics
              Database and Development Indicators

              Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Progra

CAREC's goal is to improve living standards and to reduce poverty in CAREC countries through more efficient and effective regional economic cooperation. To date, the Program has focused on financing infrastructure projects and improving the region's policy environment in the priority areas of:
transport
energy
trade policy
trade facilitation

Swedish International Development Council
Discussion of multilateral and bilateral cooperation as well as a listing of major international organizations doing work in the area.

European Union

European Union Human Rights Activities

International Monetary Fund

          IMF Data and Statistics

Money regulation and terrorism June 2007
Working together: Improving regulatory cooperation and information exchange

      Increasingly integrated Eurasia: Boosting Central Asian Economic Cooperation
      By Sena Eken

International Peace Academy

Coping with Crisis, Conflict, and Change:The United Nations and Evolving Capacities for Managing Global Crises
An assessment of critical challenges to human and international security. A first group of papers provides a horizontal perspective, examining the intersection of multiple challenges in specific regions of the world. A second group takes a vertical approach, providing in-depth analysis of global challenges relating to organized violence, poverty, population trends, public health, and climate change, among other topics.

World Trade Organization

          Doha Round
          Negotiation, development and implementation of the Doha Round

 

United Nations

          International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
          Status of ratification

          International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
          Status of ratification


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Related Articles
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Designing a mechanism for multilateral security cooperation in Northeast Asia.
Peter Van Ness. Working paper (Australian National University. Dept. of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies : Online) ; 2008/1.

The East Asia Community and the Role of External Powers: Ensuring Asian Multilateralism is not Shanghaied.
Malik, Mohan.
Korean Journal of Defense Analysis. Vol. 29, no.4, 2007, p. 29-50.

A Northeast Asian version of the Helsinki process
Youngho Kim.  International Journal on World Peace.  New York: Mar 2007.  Vol. 24,  Iss. 1,  p. 19-31 (13 pp.)

India and emerging Asia
Manish K Thakur.  Pacific Affairs.  Vancouver: Summer 2007.  Vol. 80,  Iss. 2,  p. 389-390 (2 pp.) 

Security in Asia
Timo Kivimäki.  NIAS Nytt.  Copenhagen: Mar 2006.  Iss. 1,  p. 4 (1 pp.)

America's Bismarckian Asia Policy
Eric Heginbotham,  Christopher P Twomey.  Current History.  Philadelphia: Sep 2005.  Vol. 104,  Iss. 683,  p. 243-250 (8 pp.)

ASEAN Counterterrorism Cooperation Since 9/11
Jonathan T. Chow.  Asian Survey.  Berkeley: Mar/Apr 2005.  Vol. 45,  Iss. 2,  p. 302-321    

Open Economies: Toward Security and Prosperity
Robert M Kimmitt.  Harvard International Review.  Cambridge: Fall 2007.  Vol. 29,  Iss. 3,  p. 74-77 (4 pp.)    

Japan's security policy and the ASEAN regional forum: The Search for Multilateral Security in the Asia-Pacific
Thomas S Wilkins.  Pacific Affairs.  Vancouver: Summer 2007.  Vol. 80,  Iss. 2,  p. 367-369 (3 pp.) 

India and Southeast Asia in the Age of Terror: Building Partnerships for Peace
Arabinda Acharya.  Contemporary Southeast Asia.  Singapore: Aug 2006.  Vol. 28,  Iss. 2,  p. 297-321 (25 pp.)

Policy Memo: Envisioning a Future Multilateral Security Mechanism for Northeast Asia: What’s at Stake for the US?
Stanley Foundation. Feb. 12, 2008
As part of its broader multiyear effort to explore the contours of Asian institution building, the Stanley Foundation, in collaboration with the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), convened a workshop on February 12, 2008, to explore the way forward for a future multilateral security and peace mechanism in Northeast Asia and the near-, medium- and long-term implications for the United States.

U.S., Japan, and China Conference on Trilateral Security Cooperation.
Baker, Carl. Issues & Insights Vol. 08 - No. 06 - June 25, 2008

 

Books

Beyond compliance : China, international organizations, and global security.
Kent, A. E. (Ann E.)
DS779.27 .K46 2007

Solutions for the world's biggest problems : costs and benefits.
Lomborg, Bjørn.
HD87 .S64 2007

Reassessing security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific : competition, congruence, and transformation.
Acharya, Amitav.
JZ5588 .R43 2007
 

Transforming East Asia : the evolution of regional economic integration.
Munakata, Naoko
HC460.5 .M86 2006

Forging a world of liberty under law [electronic resource] : U.S. national security in the 21st century : final paper of the Princeton Project on National Security
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/ppns/report/FinalReport.pdf

East Asian visions : perspectives on economic development.
Gill, Indermit Singh

HC460.5 .E277 2007

Asian economic cooperation and integration : progress, prospects, and challenges. High-Level Conference on Asia's Economic Cooperation and Integration (2004 : Asian Development Bank).
HC412 .A7438 2005

Reforming international environmental governance : from institutional limits to innovative solutions.
Chambers, W. Bradnee
GE170 .R436 2005

Who should keep the peace? : providing security for twenty-first-century peace operations.
Durch, William J.
JZ6374 .D87 2006

China and India : learning from each other : reforms and policies for sustained growth. Changing Economic Structures in China and India: Domestic and Regional Implications.
HC427 .C4225 2006

A handbook of globalisation and environmental policy : national government interventions in a global arena.
Wijen, Frank.
HC79 .E5 H3184 2005

Theater security cooperation in the U.S. Pacific Command: an assessment and projection. Simon, Sheldon W.
DS501.5 .N385 2003 V.14 NO.2


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