太平洋地区经济合作肇始于60年代。合作机制的发展,先是工商界的太平洋盆地经济理事会(简称PBEC,始于1967年)和学术界组织太平洋贸易发展会议(简称PAFTAD,始于1968年),继之以政、商、学三界人士组成的太平洋经济合作理事会(简称PECC,始于1980年),然后是政府间的亚太经济合作部长级会议(简称APEC,始于1991年)。在这20余年的进程中,从开始到现在,一直参与其事的少数杰出人物里就有本书作者彼得·德赖斯代尔教授的名字。德赖 Pacific economic cooperation started in the 1960s. The development of the cooperation mechanism was first started by the Business Council for the Pacific Basin Economic Community (referred to as the PBEC in 1967) and the academic trade organization Pacific Trade Conference (PAFTAD, 1968), followed by the political, business and academic circles Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC, 1980), followed by the Intergovernmental Ministerial Conference on Economic and Trade Cooperation for Asia and the Pacific (APEC, 1991). In the course of more than two decades, from the very beginning to the present day, the few outstanding figures who have been involved in this book have the name of the author, Professor Peter Driesdale. Dray