The Nature of Change

  • Michael Wesley
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Part of the International Political Economy Series book series (IPES)

Abstract

Earlier chapters of this volume have established that the ADB, ASEAN, APEC and the ARF have all experienced change. This chapter examines how change has occurred, or, in other words, what sort of change has been experienced by each of these Asia-Pacific regional institutions. In what follows I make use of an analytical framework concerning the nature of change imported from evolutionary biology to the social sciences to explore the types of change undergone by the regional organizations of the Asia-Pacific.

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Institutional Change Regional Organization Foreign Minister Incremental Model Eastern Economic Review 
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