VINOD K. AGGARWAL is Professor of Political Science, Affiliated Professor of Business and Public Policy in the Haas School of Business, and Director of the Berkeley Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) at the University of California, Berkeley. CHARLES E. MORRISON is Director of the APEC Study Center at the East-West Center, Honolulu, and Chair of the US Consortium of APEC Study Centers.

• Preface Contributors APEC: The Evolution of an Institution; C. Morrison Analyzing Institutional Transformation in the Asia-Pacific; V. Aggarwal PART I: ECONOMIC TRENDS Trade Patterns and Regimes in Asia and the Pacific; P. Guerrieri Foreign Direct Investment and APEC; S. Urata Intellectual Property and APEC; S. La Croix PART II: DOMESTIC POLITICAL CONTEXT Australia and APEC; J. Ravenhill The United States and APEC Regime-Building; R. Baker Japan's Approach to APEC and Regime Creation in the Asia-Pacific; Y. Yamamoto and T. Kikuchi China and APEC; Z. Yunling PART III: THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT: NESTED INSTITUTIONS? Political-Military Dynamics and the Nesting of Regimes: An Analysis of APEC, the WTO, and Prospects for Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific; J. Grieco Nesting NAFTA in APEC: The Political Economy of Open Subregionalism; M. Cameron ASEAN and Institutional Nesting in the Asia-Pacific: Leading from behind in APEC; M. Plummer PART IV: INSTITUTIONAL MODELS FOR APEC APEC and Regime Creation in the Asia Pacific: The OECD Model?; S. Ostry European Integration and APEC: The Search for Institutional Blueprints; C.Dupont The Future of APEC; V. Aggarwal and C. Morrison Index