, consensus decision-making, "shallow" cooperation, and limited delegation to standing international secretariats. Changes in …, from marginal changes in the extent of delegation. Several proposals are suggested about how this might occur, including …

This paper considers the reasons why APEC's potential remains, after its first decade in existence, as yet largely … unfulfilled. APEC’s progress is assessed in terms of three periods: 1989 through 1992, when it was primarily in an exploratory … implementation. APEC’s major achievements were in the early phase and were primarily of a “political” nature, helping to firmly …

The results of the 1997 APEC cycle under the Canadian chair are assessed against the backdrop of the rapid expansion of … APEC from the first meeting of Ministers from twelve Pacific rim economies in Canberra in 1989. By the time of the … Vancouver meetings, the number of economies in APEC had increased to 18, the level of contact had been elevated to Economic …