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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The proposal of FTAAP by the United States and its announcement of its intention to participate in TPP can be interpreted as an expression of its desire to restore APEC to its role as a central regional economic institution. If these schemes materialized, this development would also represent a victory on the part of the United States, with the introduction of discriminatory and legally binding mechanism as APEC's norms, given that it was the United States that intensified efforts to create this norm for regional integration within the APEC process over the decades.
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