Bibliographic record
Abstract
The emergence of Asia-Pacific regionalism represents one of the major trends in late twentieth-century geopolitics and international relations.What are the origins of this regional impetus?Who has led the way?How have they operated?How successful have they been?In Asia-Pacific Diplomacy, Lawrence Woods traces the evolution of the Pacific economic cooperation movement by examining the diplomatic contributions of a trio of international nongovernmental organizations ( INGOs): the scholarly Pacific Trade and Development Conference (PAFTAD, 1068-); the business-oriented Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC, 1968-); and the multipartite (predominantly academic, business, and government) Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC, 1980-).In addition, he provides an innovative historical perspective of an earlier INGO, the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR, 1925-61), the often overlooked forerunner of the three INGOs which are the focus of this study.Asia-Pacific Diplomacy provides the first in-depth examination of the origins, structure, and activities of these crucial nongovernmental networks.Meticulously researched and derived from personal interviews and organizational documents, this book also makes an important contribution to the study of international political and economic institutions.When assessing the future diplomatic relevance of INGOs in light of the recently established intergovernmental organization, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, the author argues that as the regional cooperation .movementexpands at the governmental level, an understanding of the nongovernmental roots of that movement is required if the diplomatic contributions of INGOs are to be retained.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.065 | 0.006 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".