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With the rise of East Asian economies and the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) in recent years nations are increasingly competing for a share of the Asian ecomic ‘miracle’ within a complex set of regional, transregional and bilateral trade agreements often described as a ‘spaghetti bowl’. The current global economic crisis is changing the topography of capital flows and investment often with significant impacts on local economies, communities and international relations. This is the context into which the new WUN Asia-Pacific International relations research group held their inaugural workshop at the University of Gaudalajara (UdG) in Mexico. Mexico has amongst the highest number of FTA partners in the world, is on the doorstep of the world’s most powerful economy but where shifting trade flows forces has led to unease especially at the problematic pace of economic integration with East Asia.

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