Bücher der Reihe Europe-Asia-Pacific Studies in Economy and Technology

The management of international trade, international trade negotiations, and the political dynamics of trade conflicts create a complex reality which follows its own laws without regard to economic policy prescriptions.

In our quickly changing world, authors who are analyzing the so cial, economic, and political processes going on in different countries often find themselves in a situation where the deve lopment of processes they have already described take a turn in another direction before their work is in final form or appears in print.

Access to science and technology worldwide is achieved by active participation in open international scientific research, as well as through technological capability that is decisive in catching up with world developments in science and technology.

Competition and cooperation between Japan, Europe and USA isthe key issue of this book - both at government and businesslevels. Governments as well ascompanies are often unprepared for cooperation with Japanwithin the framework of larger-scale projects.

Instead, we call them threshold countries, newly industrializing countries (NICs) or newly industrializing eco nomies (NIEs), the latter term taking into account the Chinese argument that Hong Kong and Taiwan should not be considered countries.