scholarly journals Redundancy in the Twenty-First Century: An Examination of and Argument Against APEC

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-65
Author(s):  
Erika Hage
Keyword(s):  
Trade Agreement ◽  
First Century ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Regional Trade ◽  
Regional Trade Agreement ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Twenty First Century

Once poised to become a significant regional trade agreement (RTA), the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s (APEC) strength has waned in the twentyfirst century, leading many to question its viability and relevance as a cooperation. Taking into account several other RTAs that have arisen in Asia and the Pacific, the paper examines whether APEC still aligns with the interests of the Cooperation’s nations and economies. A closer examination of how APEC is structured reveals several weaknesses inherent in the RTA. These, coupled with the vast geography APEC encompasses, calls into question whether APEC can continue to effectively function in its intended capacity.

Epilogue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Labor Discipline ◽  
Land Dispossession ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Indigenous Land

This book’s epilogue considers how the story of the rise and fall of Hawaiʻi’s indigenous workers—and the diasporic, migratory nature of their experiences—revolutionizes what we think we know about the place of Hawaiʻi in the Pacific, and the place of the Pacific in the world. I also raise questions about what this story can contribute to twenty-first-century struggles over capitalism and colonialism in Hawaiʻi as well as across our globalizing world. The epilogue looks specifically at the twenty-first-century legacies of nineteenth-century practices and experiences of Hawaiian migrant labor, state labor discipline, indigenous land dispossession, policing and incarceration, and life in “perpetual diaspora.”

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