ABSTRACT
A priori, a two-level game logic has been adopted in which the domestic political economies interact with the international context, strategies, and actual negotiations. An important finding of various case studies is that the political economy configurations in individual countries vary from one negotiation scenario to another, depending on the sectors involved and coalitions that are formed. An interregional economic negotiation agenda is consciously linked to a geopolitical agenda. The conclusions that can be drawn from the case studies are organized in two parts: conclusions regarding regional and interregional strategies in the Pacific Rim and how they interact, and conclusions regarding the domestic political economy of regional strategies. An issue that emerged from case studies is related to how ‘intra-regional’ regionalisms interact with cross-Pacific bilateralism or interregionalism.
