ABSTRACT
The Pacific market economy pattern has a regional character partly because there has been little development of trade and production links with states immediately to the West -- the USSR, China, the Indochinese regimes, Burma, Bangladesh, and India. The Pacific developing market economy states outside ASEAN, together with Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, are secondary regional actors because of their small size and because geographic and political factors as well as cultural differences have prevented the development of significant ties between them. A consultative regional organization can be set up on the basis of modest commitments and with little planning. Choices concerning the structuring of regional organizations and their scope of course must be related to the policy orientations of the Pacific market economy states. The promotion of broad agreement among Pacific elite networks in support of a doctrine for regional collaboration will have to be mainly a task of private diplomacy.
