ABSTRACT
Transnational businesses, common markets and informational infrastructures are working together to remake existing national political economies and sovereign states. The European Community after Maastricht, the North American Free Trade Agreement or, perhaps most importantly, many Pacific Rim nations after APEC’s formation in 1989 can provide some perspective on these changes. And the Pacific Basin region, as the main geoeconomic venue for both NAFTA and APEC, may provide the best look at this development. Clearly, the members of organizations like the EU, APEC or NAFTA all have different competing visions of the future, and one should not reduce the complexities of such regional alliances to one simple truth.
