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Canada and Asia Pacific's Track-Two Diplomacy

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AuthorPaul Evans
DOI10.1177/002070200906400411
Published date01 December 2009
Date01 December 2009
Subject MatterCanada and Asia
Paul Evans
Canada and Asia
Pacific’s track-two
diplomacy
| International Journal | Autumn 2009 | 1027 |
Viewed in broad sweep, the most dramatic change in eastern Asia in the past
25 years may be the associational revolution that has accompanied the
region’s spectacular economic growth and integration. Asian and trans-
Pacific relations have been transformed less by changes in regime type and
diplomatic initiatives, though there certainly have been examples of both,
than by the ways that people and organizations have connected to each other
across national boundaries. All this in an Asian neighbourhood in which the
principles of sovereignty and non-interference reign supreme, regional
institutions are comparatively weak, and divided states and Cold War
tensions remain unresolved.
The frame of “Asia Pacific” and its multiple variants was invented in the
mid-1980s, largely as a way of capturing the trans-Pacific interest in the
Paul Evans is professor and director of the Institute of Asian Research at the University of
British Columbia. Between 2005 an d 2008 h e served as co-CEO and chairman of the
executive committee of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

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