TY - BOOK ID - 85642809 TI - View from the 19th floor : Reflections of the first APEC Executive Director PY - 1994 SN - 9814379271 9813016930 PB - Singapore : ASEAN Economic Research Unit, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, DB - UniCat KW - Pacific Area cooperation. KW - Pacific cooperation KW - International cooperation KW - Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Organization) KW - Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Council KW - APEC KW - A-Tʻae Kyŏngje Hyŏmnyŏkchʻe KW - Ya-Tʻai ching ho tsu chih KW - Aziatsko-tikhookeanskoe ėkonomicheskoe sotrudnichestvo (Organization) KW - ATĖS KW - Mecanismo de Cooperación Económica Asia Pacífico KW - 亞太經濟合作組織 KW - Cooperación Económica en Asia Pacífico (Organization) KW - Diẽ̂n đàn hợp tác kinh té̂ châu Á--Thái Bình Dương UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85642809 AB - VIEW FROM THE 19th FLOOR: Reflections of the first APEC Executive Director is, in the words of the author, "part narrative, part case study and part of my own thoughts about where APEC should be headed". In 1993, United States Ambassador William Bodde was sent to Singapore to set up a new economic organization. Bodde clearly relished the challenge of establishing a brand new international economic organization in the most dynamic region of the world. Instructed to keep the Secretariat small, effective and financially accountable, he describes his efforts to build a functioning, cross-cultural institution in less than a year. He also has to satisfy the fifteen-member economies spanning the Pacific that the organization reflected the wishes of all APEC members and not just those of the United States! This account, in addition to serving as a case study in international public administration, chronicles the meetings of the APEC Senior Officials and Ministers leading up to the historic APEC Leader's Meeting in Seattle at the end of 1993. He concludes the monographs with a number of provocative organizational and policy recommendations for the future of APEC. ER -