1992 was a pivotal year in the development of the European Economic Community. Despite difficulties and disappointments, progress was made toward the development of an economic and political union--not merely international, but trans-national--that eventually may become what Jean Monnet, its "father," dreamed of as the United States of Europe. At the same time, we are at the threshold of what is widely proclaimed to be the Pacific Century, with a veritable alphabet soup of organizations, such as PBEC, PAFTAD, PECC, APEC, SPEC, SPC, ASEAN, PTC, APT, EWC, and AMIC (to list just a few), dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and economic cooperation among countries identified as belonging to a Pacific Community. The structural problems in the two regions are vastly different, of course, and the degree of integration that may perhaps be foreseen in Europe probably will not be achieved in the Pacific, at least for a very long time. It does seem reasonable, however, to anticipate some more modest, yet important, achievements with the help of telecommunications and information technological development.