For some time, the University of California Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) has been examining regionalism in the Asia- Pacific and Western Europe (see ). Much of the extant literature on this topic has focused on the causes and consequences of formal inter-governmental agreements. BRIE’s research, led by Michael Borrus, Dieter Ernst, and John Zysman, paid greater attention to the underlying corporate decisions and new organizational forms that have driven integration at the level of the market. BRIE’s work has shown how those market and corporate forces have strong political implications not only for economic outcomes and policy choices, but for security questions as well
