Publications

This section offers an illustrative list of works published in 2006 that are relevant to East Asian regionalism and security, broadly defined. We have tried to include primarily books and reports of a significant length as these shed light on the types of collaborative and individual research projects that were being conducted in the years leading up to 2006, and which were feeding into the broader discourse from 2006 on. Papers, briefs, and reports under 50 pages in length were generally omitted unless thought to be of particular relevance. The descriptions are based on the publishers' own descriptions of the works (where available) and are for reference only. Please note that neither the descriptions nor the inclusion of publications here constitute a review or endorsement of the publication by JCIE.

1. Advancing East Asian Regionalism
   Melissa G. Curley and Nick Thomas, eds.
   Routledge
   
   

   Developments in East Asia have progressed rapidly in terms of regionalism since the 1997 crisis. The end of the Asian miracle called into question not only the capacity of regional states to meet the needs of their attendant peoples, but also challenged the viability of regional organizations, such as ASEAN, to adapt and respond to the changing circumstances.
   This volume looks at the ways in which ASEAN has expanded since the crisis and evaluates the potential of East Asia to come together in a regional formation-one capable of representing the region as a whole, akin to the European Community. It draws upon the knowledge and perspectives of academics and policymakers actively engaged in issues of regionalism. Coupling case study material on regionalism, institutions, and sectoral cooperation with theoretical debates on regionalization, this book pushes our understanding of East Asian regionalism forward.
   http://www.routledgeasianstudies.com/books/Advancing-East-Asian-Regionalism-isbn9780415349093

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2. Anti-corruption Policies in Asia and the Pacific: Progress in Legal and Institutional Reform in 25 Countries
   Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
   
   

   Over the last decade, societies have come to realize the extent to which corruption and bribery have undermined their welfare and stability. Governments, the private sector, and civil society alike have consequently declared the fight against corruption to be of the highest priority. In the Asia Pacific region, 27 countries have joined forces to fight against corruption under the umbrella of the ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific, a unique partnership among all stakeholders from Asia Pacific countries. These countries have committed to reform of their legal and institutional frameworks and are taking stock of their relevant legal and institutional provisions to assess progress and remaining challenges. The present publication is the result of this process. It presents an overview of the main developments and reforms that countries have achieved since 2004, when the first edition was published.
   Available online: http://www.adb.org/Documents/Reports/Anticorruption-Policies/default.asp

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3. An APEC Trade Agenda? The Political Economy of a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific
   Charles E. Morrison and Eduardo Pedrosa, eds.
   Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
   
   

   The proposal for an Asia Pacific-wide free trade agreement is one of the oldest ideas for promoting mutually beneficial regional cooperation, dating back to the mid-1960s. In more recent times, the idea has found new support both as a "Plan B" to the stumbling Doha Development Agenda round of WTO negotiations and as a solution to the noodle bowl of bilateral agreements in the region.
   This report assesses the political feasibility of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) proposal and looks at alternative modalities for achieving free trade and investment in the Asia Pacific. The report includes trade policy perspectives from the three largest economies of the region, the United States, China, and Japan; lessons from similar proposals such as the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA); possible convergence among the many preferential trade agreements in the region; and alternative approaches to regional economic integration.
   http://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/

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4. ASEAN and East Asian International Relations: Regional Delusion
   David Martin and M. L. R. Smith Edward Elgar
   
   

   Two academic authors offer new assessments of ASEAN and East Asian politico-economic affairs and international relations. They argue that many of the bases and ideologies surrounding the recent history of Asia are delusional or deeply flawed, including the pattern of academic study of the region; the assumptions underlying ASEAN and the so-called Asian models of economic development; the promotion of regionalism; Australia's engagement with Asia; and the pursuit in Asia of the war on terror. Many of the assessments offered will indeed provoke controversy or rejection but this is a serious study with fresh perspectives.
   http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=39770

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5. ASEAN and the European Union
   Konrad Adenauer Stiftung KAS)
   
   

   ASEAN and the European Union have been partners for 25 years in a world that is undergoing rapid changes. The need for cooperation based on trust includes the wish for more information about each other, as well as permanent contacts and talks with one another. With this book, KAS wished to let authoritative personalities from the European Council, the European Commission, and the European Parliament share their insights about the institutions. This book is also meant as an indispensable compendium of the major European institutions and a praxis-oriented handbook for establishing contacts with the European players.
   Available online: http://www.kas.de/proj/home/pub/73/2/year-2006/dokument_id-9716/index.html

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6. ASEAN-China Economic Relations
   Saw Swee-hock, ed.
   Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
   
   

   This book, a product of the ASEAN-China Study Program of ISEAS, examines the rapidly expanding economic relations between ASEAN and China in recent years. The 15 chapters discuss in detail these relations in terms of many important topics such as trade, the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement, investments, services trade, energy cooperation, cooperation in developing the Mekong Subregion, China's aid to Southeast Asian countries, the development of stronger business networks, and the political dimensions of China's economic relations with ASEAN. The economic challenges, competition, and opportunities in the various sectors of the two economies are examined in the context of the dynamic development of China and the globalization now taking place.
   http://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/

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7. ASEAN Responses to Trafficking in Persons: Ending Impunity for Traffickers and Securing Justice for Victims
   ASEAN
   
   

   ASEAN member countries have agreed to work together to combat trafficking in persons and to take certain key steps at home. There have been many important recent developments in the region, and this publication takes stock of those activities. It was prepared for and with the support of the ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime. In keeping with the mandate of that committee, it concentrates on the response of the criminal justice system to trafficking. The report looks at how ASEAN has responded to trafficking as a community, what member countries are themselves doing about trafficking, the main challenges to an effective criminal justice response to trafficking, promising initiatives within the region, and the future direction for ASEAN institutions and member countries in their fight against trafficking.
   Available online: http://www.artipproject.org/artip/14_links/Pubs/ASEAN%20Responses%20to%20TIP.pdf

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8. ASEAN-Russian Relations
   Gennady Chufrin, Mark Hong, and Teo Kah Beng, eds.
   Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
   
   

   In contrast to India and China, Russia does not play a great role in the economies of ASEAN. Currently, Russia's interaction with ASEAN is limited to dialogue between the two parties; trade between both sides is characterized by Russian arms sales and ASEAN raw materials. This book explains why Russia's role is muted and examines the state of relations between Russia and selected individual ASEAN countries.
   http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=38455

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9. ASEM in its Tenth Year: Looking Back, Looking Forward
   Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) and the University of Helsinki Network for European Studies
   
   

   On the occasion of the Asia-Europe Meeting's (ASEM) 10th anniversary, the foreign ministries of Finland and Japan sponsored a research project to evaluate the ASEM process and explore future possibilities. The final research report, prepared by JCIE and the University of Helsinki Network for European Studies, was presented to the ASEM Senior Officials Meeting in March 2006, and it served as background material at the ASEM Summit in September 2006.
   Available online: http://www.jcie.or.jp/books/abstracts/A/asem10.html

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10. Asia-Pacific Human Development Report 2006: Trade on Human Terms-Transforming Trade for Human Development in Asia and the Pacific
    UN Development Programme (UNDP); Macmillan
    
    

    Free trade can benefit the poor of Asia Pacific if countries adopt bold new policies that harness trade and economic growth to promote people's wellbeing, according to the UNDP's Asia-Pacific Human Development Report 2006, the first in a new annual series focusing on critical development issues in the region. Opening to international trade has helped growth to soar and income poverty to substantially decline in many parts of the region. Asia Pacific now operates as the "factory of the world," and East Asia's "miracle" economies have used trade to accelerate progress in combating other aspects of deprivation, including education, health, and gender equality. Yet, trade has also contributed to increased inequalities between and within countries. In addition, many of the region's open economies are creating far fewer jobs, especially for youth and women, and experiencing "jobless growth," the report warns. This has profound implications because employment represents the main channel for the effects of trade on human development.
    Available online: http://www.undprcc.lk/rdhr2006/rdhr2006_report.asp

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11. Asia-Pacific Population Journal 20th Anniversary Special Issues (1986-2006)
    Emerging Social Issues Division, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
    
    

    The Asia-Pacific Population Journal, published three times a year, is one of the few primary journals published by the UNESCAP secretariat. It focuses on bringing out the policy and program implications of population research in the Asia Pacific region. This refereed professional journal contains articles and notes that cover a broad range of population and development issues of interest to readers in the region in a form that is relatively easy for educated readers to understand. The journal published a special edition to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the publication.
    Available online: http://www.unescap.org/publications/detail.asp?id=1181

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12. Asia Pacific Security: Imperatives for Co-operation (19th APR)
    Stephen Leong, ed.
    Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia
    
    

    Two decades since its inception, the Asia Pacific Roundtable (APR) continues to bring together the region's scholars, think tank researchers, policy practitioners, and representatives of civil society organizations to interact and exchange views on current security issues and thus contribute to the valuable discourse on regional security in the Asia Pacific. This volume contains selected papers from those presented at the 19th APR.
    http://www.isis.org.my/html/publicns/pub_books.htm

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13. Asia Pacific Security Survey 2006
    Richard W. Baker
    East-West Center
    
    

    This report presents the results of a survey completed by 73 security analysts from 15 countries in the Asia Pacific region plus Europe and the Pacific Islands. The survey is an outgrowth and continuation of the Asia Pacific Security Outlook project and book series launched in 1997 under the joint sponsorship of JCIE, the ASEAN-ISIS institutions, and the East-West Center. Although the publication is being suspended, the questionnaire sustains the essence of the project, which is to provide a diversity of perspectives on regional security issues. The information compiled from the survey provides a generally accurate representation of the state of thinking about the security outlook in the region among security specialists.
    Available online: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/res-rp-publicationdetails.asp?pub_ID=1980

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14. The Asian Conventional Military Balance in 2006: Total and Sub-regional Balances-Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia
    Anthony H. Cordesman and Martin Kleiber
    Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
    
    

    This working draft report presents trends in military expenditures, analyzing the current overall military balance in Asia as a whole, as well as subregional balances and trends in individual countries. The rise of China as a major power has triggered a new debate over the military balance in Asia, but it is only one of the trends shaping regional military forces. Destabilization in the Taiwan Straits, Japan's reassertion of its strategic role in the region, North Korea's persistence in creating nuclear forces, and cuts and shifts in US forces are also affecting the balance. There are fewer signs of significant shifts in the balance in South and Southeast Asia. The major change in the threat has been the emergence of transnational threats from Islamist extremists and continuing internal ethnic, sectarian, and tribal tensions.
    http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/060626_asia_balance.pdf

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15. Asian Development Outlook 2006
    Asian Development Bank (ADB)
    
    

    This 18th edition of the Asian Development Outlook provides a comprehensive economic analysis of 43 economies in developing Asia Pacific. Using the ADB's unique knowledge of the region, it examines trends and prospects in Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific in the context of global economic movements. An important theme is how developing Asia can best position itself to maximize the benefits of international trade.
    Aggregate GDP for the region expanded by a robust 7.4 percent in 2005. Growth was underpinned by a favorable external environment and continuing progress on domestic reform issues. China and India both grew rapidly. Looking forward, the projection is for continued robust growth. It will be helped by broadly favorable global conditions, but sustainability will depend on how well countries address their internal constraints. For many countries, a key challenge is to reignite investment demand and ensure that domestic savings are put to good use.
    Available online: http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/ADO/2006/default.asp

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16. Asian Informal Workers: Global Risks, Local Protection
    Santosh Mehrotra and Mario Biggeri, eds.
    Routledge
    
    

    There has been an increasing informalization of the non-agricultural labor force in developing countries over the last half-century of development. Simultaneously, there has been a feminization of that very large segment of the labor force. This book draws on small-scale surveys in at least three sectors, carried out in five Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines) where industrial outwork and informal sector production, usually by women working out of their homes, is widespread. The book also examines the incidence and implications of child work in such households.
    Industrial outwork is a source of income diversification for poor families and enables the emergence of micro-enterprises, but it is also a source of exploitation of vulnerable workers as firms attempt to contain costs. This book examines the social protection needs of these workers and also argues for public action to promote such work and protect such workers as part of a potential new labor-intensive growth strategy in these and other developing countries.
    http://www.routledge.com/books/Asian-Informal-Workers-isbn9780415382755

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17. Asian Security Reassessed
    Stephen Hoadley and Jurgen Ruland, eds.
    Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
    
    

    This book traces changes in the concept of security in Asia from realist to cooperative, comprehensive, and human security approaches, and assesses a number of policy alternatives to management of both old and new security threats. It surveys not only orthodox security threats, such as tensions between regional powers or armed ethnic antagonists, but also new sources of anxiety such as resource scarcity, economic instability, irregular migration, community fragmentation, and international terrorism. Security policies of major powers such as China, Japan, and the United States, and the moderating roles of regional organizations such as ASEAN, the ASEAB Regional Forum, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the Korean Peninsula Economic Development Organization are evaluated in historical and contemporary perspectives. Contributors offer policy-relevant insights where appropriate. The book concludes that traditional security approaches remain valid but need to be adapted to the new challenges, and offers suggestions for incorporating fresh Asian security perceptions into the agendas of policymakers, analysts, and scholars.
    http://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/

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18. A Basket Currency for Asia
    Takatoshi Ito, ed.
    Routledge
    
    

    The failure of the dollar peg to prevent the Asian currency crisis of 1997 has highlighted the importance of the exchange rate regime in Asia and provoked much discussion as to what the alternatives are in terms of exchange rate systems. Bringing together extensive research on Asian basket currencies, this new volume discusses whether a currency basket system is the answer, striking a balance between the theoretical and empirical. With strong policy implications for East Asia, the contributors argue that for countries that have close economic relationships with several currency areas, it is well worth considering a currency basket system. The book also pursues the important idea of coordination failure, whereby if each individual country tries to adopt an optimal exchange rate given other neighboring countries' policies, they may collectively fail to reach a region's optimal exchange rate regime.
    http://www.routledgeasianstudies.com/books/A-Basket-Currency-for-Asia-isbn9780415383769

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19. Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism
    Peter J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, eds.
    Cornell University
    
    

    Have Japan's relative economic decline and China's rapid ascent altered the dynamics of Asian regionalism? Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, the editors of Network Power, one of the most comprehensive volumes on East Asian regionalism in the 1990s, present an impressive new collection that brings the reader up to date. This book argues that East Asia's regional dynamics are no longer the result of a simple extension of any one national model. While Japanese institutional structures and political practices remain critically important, the new East Asia now under construction is more than, and different from, the sum of its various national parts. At the outset of a new century, the interplay of Japanese factors with Chinese, American, and other national influences is producing a distinctively new East Asian region.
    http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4430

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20. BFA Annual Report 2006: Economic Integration in Asia
    Boao Forum for Asia
    

    In keeping with its goal of producing an annual monitoring report every year that would reflect the current state of trade and investment in the Asian region and identify appropriate measures required for sustaining the ongoing momentum of the "Asian economic miracle," the Boao Forum for Asia has come up with a framework report on the occasion of its 5th anniversary. BFA Annual Report 2006 is the product of close collaboration between the Asia-based economic forum and the World Bank.
    The coverage of this report extends beyond the topic of trade in goods taken up in the 2005 report and now includes a good deal of discussion on trade in services. The current report also examines investment flows, including FDI, within the Asian region. Special emphasis has been given to smaller economies within the region, particularly Cambodia, Vietnam, and Lao PDR within ASEAN, in order to understand the impact of emerging economies of Asia on these smaller countries. Attempts have been made to also reveal the extent of participation of small countries in FDI flows.
    Available online: http://www.boaoforum.org

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21. Building Multi-party Capacity for a WMD-Free Korea
    Charles Perry, Guillermo Pinczuk, James L. Schoff, and Todd Walters
    Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA)
    
    

    This is a report on an ongoing, multiyear project, based on the proceedings of a February 2006 workshop and extensive follow-up research into ways in which greater stability and predictability can be introduced to the denuclearization dialogue. The report addresses the issues of economic engagement with North Korea, denuclearization and verification, security assurances, and moving forward with capacity building.
    Available online: http://www.ifpa.org/pdf/BuildMPC.pdf

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22. Central Asia and its Asian Neighbors: Security and Commerce at the Crossroads
    Rollie Lal
    RAND
    

    The Asian states neighboring Central Asia have historic links and strong interests in the region. China, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan are critical players in the security and economic issues that will determine the future of Central Asia and affect US interests in the region. Although these Asian states do not agree on how to secure Afghanistan against threats, there is unanimous agreement that a stable Afghanistan is critical to their own security interests. However, opinion toward US presence and policy in the region could be a point of conflict. The purpose of this monograph is to provide an assessment of the nature of Asian states' interest and influence in Central Asia in order to determine the development of these relationships and how they will shape the strategic dynamics of Asia in the coming years.
    Available online: http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG440/

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23. The Challenges of China's Growth
    Dwight H. Perkins
    American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
    
    

    China's economic performance over the past three decades-its rapid growth, economic opening, and strides in poverty alleviation-marks a historic turn that may qualify as one of the great "success stories" of modern economic development. China seems poised for further rapid growth today, but questions and uncertainties cloud the longer-term horizon. Can China make the institutional changes and policy reforms that will be required to reach significantly higher general levels of productivity and income? Will continuing economic growth unleash unpredictable social or political forces within China? And what will "an economically rising China" (potentially, a China with the world's largest GDP) mean for the security of China's neighbors and the international community?
    Available online: http://www.aei.org/books/filter.all,bookID.869/book_detail.asp

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24. Chasing the Sun: Rethinking East Asian Policy
    Morton Abramowitz and Stephen Bosworth
    Century Foundation Press
    
    

    During the past half century, US policy in East Asia was guided by a simple dictum: avoid the domination of East Asia by any power other than the United States. Increasingly, however, this policy approach seems questionable. Even as East Asian leaders often tell Americans they want a continued US presence for security purposes, they also fear an American effort to "contain" China that will put them between a rising regional power and the global superpower, creating dangerous tensions that ultimately would threaten the region's golden goose-China's powerful economic growth engine. Others, like some Japanese, would welcome a conclusion by the United States that a powerful China ultimately threatens American interests. Chasing the Sun addresses major policy problems of East Asia and examines how the United States can retain influence commensurate with its interests.
    http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/clientpr/priority/postamericancenturyineastasia.htm

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25. China-ASEAN Relations: Economic and Legal Dimensions
    John Wong, Zou Keyuan, and Zeng Huaqun, eds.
    World Scientific Publishing
    
    

    With China's dynamic economic growth, its relations with ASEAN states have expanded rapidly in recent years, culminating in the conclusion of the landmark China-ASEAN Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement in 2002. Beyond trade and economic activities, China-ASEAN cooperation has broadened to cover the environment, science and technology, nontraditional security areas, and related legal issues. China's relations with ASEAN have reached a new era in which the two sides have established an economic, legal, and political framework for their comprehensive cooperation.
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of China-ASEAN relations from economic, legal, and political perspectives and examines various important topics related to nontraditional security issues, free trade zone and regional economic integration, border trade and environmental issues, and maritime security.
    http://www.worldscibooks.com/eastasianstudies/6025.html

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26. China-ASEAN Relations: Perspectives, Prospects, and Implications for US Interests
    Jing-dong Yuan
    Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College
    
    

    The author traces the evolution of China-ASEAN relations since the early 1990s and examines some of the key factors that have contributed to the positive developments in bilateral ties. He describes and analyzes how China and ASEAN have managed the territorial disputes through negotiation and compromises, looks at the expanding economic ties between China and ASEAN member states, examines the politico-strategic and economic rationales for establishing a free trade area, and evaluates the emerging yet still limited defense and security ties between the two. He also assesses the implications of the growing China-ASEAN ties for US interests in the region.
    Available online: http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=735

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27. China's Development and Prospect of ASEAN-China Relations
    Centre for ASEAN and China Studies
    
    

    On December 20, 2005, a seminar on "China's Development and Prospect of ASEAN-China Relations" was held in Hanoi as the first activity of the Centre for ASEAN and China Studies. The seminar attracted scholars in China and ASEAN countries, who exchanged views about the development of China and the prospects of ASEAN-China relations. The research findings included in this volume offer input for policymakers on both sides to promote ASEAN-China relations.
    http://www.cacs.org.vn/webplus/viewer.asp?pgid=4&aid=156

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28. China's Rise: Implications for US Leadership in Asia
    Robert Sutter
    East-West Center
    
    

    This study argues that overt US competition with China for influence in Asia is unwelcome, counterproductive to US interests, and unwarranted given the limited challenge posed by China's rise. US policymakers should resist recent congressional, media, and interest group pressures that employ overstated appraisals of China's rising power in order to push for tougher competition with China. Contrary to prevailing commentaries, the study demonstrates that China's advance rests on a fairly narrow foundation, and China's influence in Asia is undermined by domestic preoccupations, nationalistic ambitions at odds with neighbors, and the adverse economic implications of China's rise for many in Asia.
    This study probes the nature of the Southeast Asian regional security dynamic by investigating the regional security strategies of Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The focus is on how these states envisage the United States acting out its role as security guarantor vis-�-vis the China challenge. That is, this study fleshes out Southeast Asia's so-called hedging strategies against China.
    Available online: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/publications/search-for-publications/browse-alphabetic-list-of-titles/?class_call=view&pub_ID=1981&mode=view

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29. Conflict, Terrorism and the Media in Asia
    Benjamin Cole, ed.
    Routledge
    
    

    There are many different kinds of subnational conflicts across Asia, with a variety of causes, but since September 11, 2001, these have been increasingly portrayed as part of the global terrorist threat, to be dealt with by the "War on Terror." This major new study examines a wide range of such conflicts, showing how, despite their significant differences, they share the role of the media as interlocutor, and exploring how the media exercises this role. The book raises a number of issues concerning how the media report different forms of political violence and conflict, including issues of impartiality in the media's relations with governments and insurgents, and how the focus on the "War on Terror" has led to some forms of violence-notably those employed by states for political purposes-to be overlooked.
    http://www.routledgeasianstudies.com/books/Conflict-Terrorism-and-the-Media-in-Asia-isbn9780415351980

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30. Curbing Corruption in Public Procurement in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank (ADB)
    
    

    Curbing Corruption in Public Procurement in Asia and the Pacific presents the findings of the ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific's 2005-2006 thematic review on curbing corruption in public procurement. It highlights trends, approaches, and achieve-ments covering the initiative's 25 member countries and jurisdictions in Asia Pacific in a comparative overview that provides details on existing policies and key elements of legal and institutional frameworks.
    The publication begins with an measures for curbing corruption in public pro-curement in Asia Pacific through comprehensive regulations, transparency and fairness, promo-tion of integrity of individuals, and verification mechanisms. It then turns to country reports, examining the current systems for curbing corruption in public procurement.
    Available online: http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Public-Procurement-Asia-Pacific/default.asp

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31. Demarcating Ethnicity in New Nations: Cases of the Chinese in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia
    Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) and Singapore Society of Asian Studies
    
    

    When people are learning to accept the new concept of nation, the impact of globalization, especially with China as an influential factor again, will compel ethnic Chinese to look beyond national borders and even return to cultural identification. How will the Chinese in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia relate culturally to China? How will the Chinese conduct cultural interaction among themselves in Southeast Asia? These are the issues covered by this publication, which is available in English and Chinese.
    http://www.kas.de/proj/home/pub/73/2/year-2006/dokument_id-9790/index.html

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32. Democracy in Asia, Europe and the World: Toward a Universal Definition
    Chung-si Ahn and Bertrand Fort, eds.
    Marshall Cavendish Academic
    
    

    Democracy has long been among the most contested concepts in political science and political philosophy. Yet, since the 1990s, there has been a widespread tendency to think as if a universally acceptable definition is already in hand. The catalysts for this change appear to be the worldwide wave of democratization and revived attention to the study of democracies. The underlying assumption is that we have a shared ambition of democracy. This would imply that countries that are undergoing a process of democratization will eventually reach a stage that conforms to such a definition. In extending its geographical scope across the world, has the concept of democracy lost some of the sharp contentious characteristics of the past? Or, on the contrary, will these profound divisions continue to prevail? Some of the most prominent academics from Asia and Europe come together to examine these issues that have pertinent applications for democracy in practice in Asia and Europe.
    http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=39355

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33. Different Societies, Shared Futures: Australia, Indonesia and the Region John Monfries, ed.
    Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
    
    

    Australia's relationship with Indonesia is one of its most important and contentious bilateral relationships, characterized by sharply differing social and cultural mores and by periodic crises and mutual distrust but also by significant person-to-person contacts in many fields. Recent developments, including the tsunami tragedy, the policies of a new Indonesian president, and the Corby affair, have demonstrated both the best and the worst in the relationship. Australia's management of its most important regional relationship also has implications for its relations with other countries in the region.
    This book examines the wide range of factors and approaches that are involved in meeting the bilateral and regional challenges, including government links, public images and mutual perceptions, regional organizations, the role of Islam, the aid relationship, security and counterterrorism, economic and business relations, and the student market.
    http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=39002

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34. The Dragon's Shadow: The Rise of China and Japan's New Nationalism
    Ben Self
    Henry L. Stimson Center
    
    

    The era of "Friendship Diplomacy" between Japan and China began in the aftermath of Tokyo's defeat in World War II and both countries' economic prostration. The Friendship era flourished so long as Japan maintained a penitent and conciliatory policy toward China and abjured militarism, and China remained dependent on Japanese aid, investment, and trade. That era's collapse in the late 1990s roughly coincided with the end of the Cold War, the bursting of Japan's economic bubble, and Tokyo's emerging sense of threat from a rising China and North Korea's missiles and nuclear capability. Former Prime Minister Abe moved quickly to reestablish normal relations with both Beijing and Seoul, but the fact that his revisionist-nationalist agenda was generally in keeping with the national mood raises serious questions about the future stability of Northeast Asia and the US-Japan alliance.
    Available online: http://www.stimson.org/pub.cfm?id=383

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35. East Asia: Between Regionalism and Globalism
    Gennady Chufrin, ed.
    
    

    Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) and Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) This book analyzes modern tendencies in the development of regional economic cooperation in East Asia, which is considered by countries in the region as their response to growing challenges of globalization. Trying to protect their national interests through collective efforts, they are promoting regional commercial, investment, and financial cooperation as measures aimed at improving the efficiency of their economies. These steps, however, are not regarded as a counterweight to globalization but merely directed against most negative manifestations of the latter and in fact are realized as one of the forms of globalization at the regional level.
    http://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/

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36. East Asia, Globalization and the New Economy
    F. Gerard Adams
    Routledge
    
    

    We are witnessing a transformation in the world economy as a result of the IT/e-business revolution. Modern logistics based on cheap communication and transportation are shifting the locus of production and the international division of labor between the West and the lower wage countries of East Asia and within East Asia itself. Looming over the entire picture is the colossus that is China, and this transformation is making East Asia the manufacturing center of the world economy. Written by an expert in the area of business economics, this book analyzes these developments and evaluates their future impact on the development of East Asia and its role in the world economy. The author questions whether the e-business revolution will renew and sustain the rapid economic development of East Asia.
    http://www.routledgeasianstudies.com/books/East-Asia-Globalization-and-the-New-Economy-isbn9780415769914

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37. East Asian Finance: The Road to Robust Markets
    Swati R. Ghosh
    World Bank
    
    

    Well-functioning financial markets are critical for supporting East Asia's ambitious growth and development agenda. Over the coming years, East Asia's financial sector will need to be highly diversified to meet the needs of increasingly complex and sophisticated economies. It will need to provide financial services efficiently and be robust to withstand potential shocks in a changing world economy.
    East Asian Finance provides a comprehensive overview of the financial markets in the East Asia region. It systematically analyzes each of the financial segments in terms of access, efficiency, and stability, and discusses the remaining challenges and policy priorities. It argues that the East Asian economies need to focus on further developing the securities markets. In particular, given the depth of the financial sector overall, economies in East Asia lag behind in the relative importance of the bond market.
    http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?context=drilldown&item%5fid=5912627

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38. East Asian Strategic Review 2006
    Tsunekawa Jun, ed.
    National Institute for Defense Studies
    

    The East Asian Strategic Review is the flagship publication of the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS). This annual report includes analyses of the strategic environment of East Asia from a Japanese viewpoint. The region covered in the review includes the Korean Peninsula, China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Russia, the United States, and Japan. It also analyzes the surrounding areas of East Asia from the viewpoint of Japan's commitment to the security of East Asia. The report is published annually in both Japanese and English.
    This year's review focuses on the realignment of US forces and East Asian security, the Indian Ocean tsunami and international cooperation, the Korean Peninsula, China's achievements and the challenges of "neighboring diplomacy," Southeast Asia and major power relations, Sino-Russian relations, challenges facing the Bush administration, and more effective international cooperation by Japan.
    Available online: http://www.nids.go.jp/english/index.html

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39. Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific, 2006: Energizing the Global Economy
    Poverty and Development Division, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
    
    

    The 2006 edition of UNESCAP's Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific focused on "Energizing the Global Economy." According to the report, the principal policy issues and challenges facing the region over the next 12 months would be concerned with the course of oil prices, the threat of global external payment imbalances unwinding precipitously, the impact of higher interest rates, and the potential for the avian influenza to develop into a human pandemic. Longer-term issues relate to the ongoing challenge of poverty reduction, utilizing the benefits of home remittances to simultaneously improve social indicators and macroeconomic fundamentals, and re-energizing the trade liberalization agenda following the 6th WTO Ministerial Conference, held in Hong Kong in December 2005.
    http://www.unescap.org/unis/library/pub_pdf/escat_2005.pdf

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40. Emerging Financial Risks in East Asia
    Doo-yong Yang, ed.
    Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP)
    

    This report emanates from a project conducted by KIEP and the Policy Research Institute (PRI), which sought to identify major financial risks in East Asia and provide comprehensive analyses and policy implications and recommendations. Themes covered in the project included current capital flows and related risks from possible capital reversal, China's new exchange rate regime and its implication for East Asia, and ways to stimulate the private sector in East Asia.
    Available online: http://www.kiep.go.kr/eng/std_data_view.asp?num=177342&sCate=013003&sSubCate=&lTp=r&nowPage=1&listCnt=15#

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41. Eminent Persons Group (EPG) on the ASEAN Charter
    Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
    
    

    In 2006, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations was 39 years old, but unlike the African Union, the Organization of American States, and other regional associations, ASEAN had no formal charter. The only founding document was the ASEAN Declaration, issued in Bangkok in 1967. ASEAN came to the conclusion that it was time to adopt a charter for the association. A charter would also give ASEAN an unquestionable legal personality and legal standing. In this publication, ISEAS put together a record of the proceedings of the EPG consultations with civil society and business sector representatives on the occasion of its fourth meeting to discuss an ASEAN Charter.
    http://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/

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42. Energy and Security: The Geopolitics of Energy in the Asia-Pacific
    Manjeet Singh Pardesi, Amitav Acharya, Premarani Somasundram, et al.
    Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS), Nanyang Technological University
    
    

    This report discusses the geopolitics of energy in the Asia Pacific region. The report locates energy security at the nexus of critical policy issues, such as national grand strategy, military force modernization, maritime security, and environmental policy. The authors analyze the energy security strategies of the different states from the perspective of policymakers responsible for the broader national security policy and not from the more technical point of view of the energy industry. The authors explain that if the energy security strategies of the major states can be coordinated, then the benefits to the international system, in terms of stability of energy prices and lessened geopolitical tensions, will be significant.
    Available online: http://www.isn.ethz.ch/pubs/ph/details.cfm?lng=en&id=26447

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43. Energy Security In Asia
    Michael Wesley, ed.
    Routledge
    
    

    This book explores the various dimensions of energy security in Asia, which has become an increasingly important geopolitical issue. International contributors look at the roles played by each of the major energy importers (United States, China, Japan, and India) as well as the main suppliers (OPEC states, Russia, Central Asia, and Australia). In each case, the domestic politics of energy security are investigated, and state interests and perspectives on the issue are considered.
    Analyzing the policy and security aspects of energy security, the book includes an examination of the geopolitics of energy competition (strategic, economic, and environmental dimensions) and the impact of energy security on human security.
    http://www.routledgeasianstudies.com/books/Energy-Security-in-Asia-isbn9780415410069

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44. Enhancing Regional Cooperation in Infrastructure Development Including that Related to Disaster Management
    Poverty and Development Division, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
    
    

    Adequate infrastructure in the four key sectors considered in this study-transport, telecommunications, energy, and water-is a prerequisite for opening up access to global trade and investment flows, increasing the competitiveness of production and services, and thus sustaining the region's economic growth. The study, which was prepared for the 62nd session of UNESCAP (Jakarta, April 2006), analyzes the role of infrastructure and its socioeconomic linkages as well as regional initiatives in creating, maintaining, and utilizing infrastructure with a focus on financing such investment. It identities specific options for strengthening regional cooperation in these areas.
    Available online: http://www.unescap.org/publications/detail.asp?id=1148

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45. European and Asian Perspectives on Global Imbalances
    Alan Ahearne, ed.
    Asia Europe Economic Forum
    
    

    Five institutions from Asia and Europe agreed in 2006 to establish an Asia Europe Economic Forum. This high-level forum gives Asian and European policy experts an occasion for in-depth, research-based exchanges on global issues of mutual interest by organizing a series of conferences in Asia and Europe. The first of these conferences took place in Beijing on July 13-14, 2006. There was a broad range of participants, including active and former senior policymakers, recognized academic experts, and private sector specialists. The theme was "European and Asian Perspectives on Global Imbalances." This publication includes papers presented at the conference and summaries of the panel discussions. The papers analyzed growing account imbalances, assessed the risks of their abrupt unwinding, and discussed policy options for Europe and Asia.
    Available online: http://www.bruegel.org/Public/SimplePage.php?ID=1703

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46. Fairness, Globalization, and Public Institutions: East Asia & Beyond
    Jim Dator, Dick Pratt, and Yongseok Seo, eds.
    University of Hawaii
    
    

    In this book, a group of academics and practitioners contribute to the examination of a key dimension of globalization: its fairness. They present a broad-ranging study of the intersections between fairness, globalization, and public institutions. The four sections in this book look at the meanings of the key concepts of "fairness," "globalization," and "public institutions"; the different preferred views on the relation of the three key concepts; historic, global, and future-oriented perspectives on the issues; and how public institutions in several East and Southeast Asian countries respond (or fail to respond) to globalization with fairness. The work concludes with an analysis of what is needed in training and research and a summary of the authors' main lessons learned in this process. Although this study focuses on East and Southeast Asia, the relevance of the issues discussed extends well beyond these regions.
    http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=39108

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47. Fighting a Rising Tide: The Response to AIDS in East Asia
    Tadashi Yamamoto and Satoko Itoh, eds.
    Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE)
    
    

    Twelve chapters were commissioned to experts around Asia Pacific to examine how government, civil society, corporations, and media are responding to the rising tide of HIV/AIDS infection that is afflicting the region. These chapters portray a surprising diversity of experiences. Countries such as Australia had early, concentrated epidemics, for example, while others like China are experiencing rapidly growing epidemics. Thailand has seen high but declining prevalence rates, Vietnam is seeing exponential growth in rates among specific populations, and Japan and others still have low prevalence rates but need to remain vigilant.
    The varied responses by each society to the rising threat offer critical and practical lessons. Equally important is the increasing recognition that many problems contributing to the spread of HIV/AIDS are cross-border issues that must be addressed collaboratively. In this volume, experts in the field offer insight into the efforts occurring in their own societies to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS.
    Available online: http://www.jcie.or.jp/fgfj/e/risingtide.html

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48. Fighting the Spread of WMD: Views from the Next Generation (Issues & Insights 6, no. 4)
    Brad Glosserman
    Pacific Forum CSIS
    
    

    The Pacific Forum, as secretariat of the US Committee of CSCAP, co-chairs an international study group on Countering the Proliferation of WMD in the Asia Pacific. This volume of Issues & Insights presents papers from the second meeting of the study group, held in Manila (December 2005), which were written by Asian and American participants in the Pacific Forum's Young Leaders program. Much of the discussion in Manila focused on two issues: the salience of the WMD threat to Asian governments and the basic question of why states proliferate. In truth, most Southeast Asian governments do not see WMD as a threat; they are focused on more basic, internal concerns and lack the resources to understand and confront the WMD threat. There is no single explanation for why states proliferate. Nevertheless, the reluctance of nuclear weapons states to eliminate their arsenals sends the wrong signal.
    Available online: http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/issuesinsights_v06n04.pdf

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49. From Crisis to Opportunity: Financial Globalization and East Asian Capitalism
    Mo Jongryn and Daniel I. Okimoto, eds.
    Stanford University
    
    

    Since the mid-1990s, China, Japan, and Korea have come under severe pressure to restructure and reform their economic systems. Indeed, across East Asia, governments are attempting to address their structural problems with a variety of reform programs. It is still too early to declare the triumph of financial globalization, and East Asian financial and corporate systems continue to fall short of global standards in structure and performance. Yet old models have been discarded and new patterns are emerging.
    This book identifies and accounts for empirical regularities across East Asian countries and sectors, which previous studies have left largely unexplained. In general, the contributors to this collection conclude that the interaction between financial globalization and domestic politics is the key to unlocking the reform process. In particular, the authors address issues important to the study of East Asian political economies, such as their receptivity to financial globalization, their financial integration, and the convergence or divergence of their economic institutions.
    http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/2006/fromcrisistoopportunity.aspx

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50. From Triangles to Trilaterals: The Next Generation Views US-China-Japan Relations (Issues & Insights 6, no. 8)
    Brad Glosserman, ed.
    Pacific Forum CSIS
    
    

    Few relationships are as complex and as confusing as the one that includes the United States, China, and Japan. The three countries interact on virtually every level and have shared interests and objectives across a range of concerns. Stabilizing that triangle is a source of considerable concern among foreign policy specialists.
    At the Pacific Forum CSIS conference on "Strategic Goals in US-China-Japan Relations," an entire session was dedicated to presentations by young leaders to hear their thinking about relations among the three countries. Their paper assignment, the results of which make up this volume, was to determine which bilateral relationship among the three countries is, in their opinion, most important and what specifically those two countries could do to ensure good relations with the third. A young leader from each of the three countries provided a brief summary of their paper for conference participants.
    Available online: http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/issuesinsights_v06n08.pdf

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51. Global Forces 2005: Proceedings of the ASPI Conference
    Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
    
    

    Seventeen of the world's strategic thinkers debated the key issues shaping global and Asia Pacific security at ASPI's inaugural conference, which was held over two days in September 2005. This is a two-volume publication with day one topics on global strategy and day two on strategic change. Available online http://www.aspi.org.au/publications/publication_details.aspx?ContentID=92&pubtype=5

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52. Global, Regional, and National: Strategic Issues and Linkages
    Jusuf Wanandi
    Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Jakarta
    
    

    This book is a collection of Jusuf Wanandi's articles published in The Jakarta Post since January 1984. Wanandi helped establish both CSIS and the Post. His book is divided into three parts, each of which examines relevant issues at global, regional, and national levels. On global issues, he focuses on lessons to be learned from changes in US leadership from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush. He also stresses the importance of preparing for globalization. On regional issues, Wanandi stresses the need to build an East Asian community, with efforts focused on finding a balance among China, Japan, South Korea, and India in the East Asia Summit or ASEAN+3. At the national level, he concluded that Indonesia still needs steady economic development, more democratic reforms, and good policies and actions to create and maintain stability, especially in Aceh and Papua. http://www.csis.or.id/events_past_view.asp?id=132&tab=0

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53. Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific: Contested Perspectives and Diverse Experiences
    Iyanatul Islam and Moazzem Hossain, eds.
    Edward Elgar
    
    

    This book illustrates contested perspectives on globalization as represented by the diverse experiences of selected economies within the Asia Pacific region, namely Australia, China, India, and Sri Lanka, as case studies. This volume is written in a nontechnical but rigorous fashion, enabling the reader to follow complex and technical debates pertaining to globalization. The book begins by studying the nature of disagreements among economists on the benefits and costs of globalization, highlighting ways in which one can consolidate the gains from globalization while mitigating its costs, offering a critique of macroeconomic conservatism and discussing the promises, pitfalls and perils of foreign direct investment. The contributors then go on to anchor global debates in regional and country-specific circumstances. The issues discussed range from broad political economy perspectives to industry case studies, but all are united by concerns about socioeconomic disparities in an age of globalization. http://www.griffith.edu.au/business/griffith-asia-institute/publications

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54. Globalization and East Asia: Opportunities and Challenges
    Khosrow Fatemi, ed.
    Routledge
    
    

    This book examines the intricate economic workings of East Asia over the last 30 years. Put together by an illustrious team of academics and researchers, this study is divided into four main sections. The first section introduces the distinctive qualities of the policies that have sparked economic growth and development. This is followed by comparative studies of different countries and industries in the region and an in-depth study of the East Asian area over the last 50 years. Part three contains sector-specific studies within Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, and Thailand. The last part spotlights industry-specific elements and explores the future of globalization in relation to its effects on East Asia.
    http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=40674

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55. Governments and Markets in East Asia: The Politics of Economic Crises
    Jungug Choi
    Routledge
    
    

    Governments and Markets in East Asia examines the relationship between economic performance, elite cooperation, and political regime stability in the context of the Asian crisis and argues that economic crisis is not the cause of greater political harmony or discord but rather that it serves as a catalyst that may encourage elites to cooperate or conflict depending upon the particular circumstances at the time of crisis. This book maintains that the political consequences of the Asian crisis varied according to the type of elite that existed in each stricken society. Including a comprehensive comparative study of five countries' experiences during the economic crisis-Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, and the Philippines-this book investigates the pre-crisis political context and elite configuration of these five countries and considers what lessons can be drawn from their experiences.
    http://www.routledgeasianstudies.com/books/Governments-and-Markets-in-East-Asia-isbn9780415399029

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56. Harnessing Globalization: A Review of East Asian Case Histories
    Henry Y. Wan, Jr.
    World Scientific Publishing
    
    

    At a time of robust worldwide debates on globalization, this volume shows how successful each of the East Asian economies has been in harnessing globalization by appropriate and alternative means to catch up with the advanced economies and what implications can be drawn to assess Chinese economic growth in that context. The essays in this book highlight the development of East Asia over the six decades after World War II and ask, among other questions, why the region has performed so well economically relative to the rest of the developing world and which are the most challenging limitations to be addressed.
    http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=38430

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57. Human Rights in Asia: A Comparative Legal Study of Twelve Asian Jurisdictions, France and the United States
    Randall Peerenboom, C. J. Petersen, et al., eds.
    Routledge
    
    

    This work considers how human rights are viewed and implemented in Asia. It covers not just civil and political rights, but also social, economic, and cultural rights. This study discusses the problems arising from the fact that ideas of human rights have evolved in Western liberal democracies and examines how far such values are compatible with Asian values and applicable in Asian contexts. Core chapters on France and the United States provide a benchmark on how human rights have emerged and how they are applied and implemented in a civil law and a common law jurisdiction. These are then followed by 12 chapters on the major countries of East Asia plus India, each of which follows a common template to consider the context of the legal system in each country, black letter law, legal discussions and debates, and key current issues concerning human rights in each jurisdiction.
    http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=36476

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58. Illicit Drugs and Development: Critical Issues for Asia and the Pacific (Development Bulletin no. 69)
    

    Australian National University Development Studies Network
    
    Published in February 2006, this issue of Development Bulletin investigates the impact of illicit drugs-a social, political, and economic issue that is seldom considered in the development debate, is overlooked in development policy, and has no place in the Millennium Development Goals, yet seriously constrains the likelihood of achieving sustainable development goals in most Asian (and increasingly Pacific) countries. The volume features papers from the Illicit Drugs and Development Symposium held in Canberra, Australia, in August 2005.
    http://devnet.anu.edu.au/bulletin.php

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59. Impact of HIV/AIDS 2005-2025 in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor
    AusAID
    
    

    In 2004, at a meeting of the South-West Pacific Dialogue, the governments of Papua New Guinea (PNG), Indonesia, East Timor, the Philippines, New Zealand, and Australia agreed on undertaking a collaborative study of the epidemiological, social, and economic risks and vulnerabilities related to HIV/AIDS. An epidemiological model was developed to project the future course of the HIV epidemic over the period 2005-2025 in PNG, Indonesia, and East Timor under three scenarios. The first scenario assumed that HIV interventions remain at current levels (baseline scenario). The second and third scenarios assumed increases in HIV interventions to medium and high response levels. Projections of HIV case numbers and deaths were used as a basis to estimate future social, economic, and security impacts. This report includes the results of the HIV Epidemiological Modeling and Impact (HEMI) Study.
    Available online: http://www.ausaid.gov.au/research/pubout.cfm?ID=6912_3210_5427_6152_4107&FromSection=Research&Type=All

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60. India and South East Asia: The Security Cooperation
    Y. M. Bammi Gyan Publishing House
    
    

    Lieutenant-General Bammi, now retired from military posts in India, has written this study of security threats being faced in Southeast Asia and the role India can play to mitigate them. Consideration of the implications for India of these threats is followed by short assessments of national security strengths and weaknesses of each country in the region. The strategic interests of non-Southeast Asian nations and regional bodies in the security of the area and the South China Sea are overviewed. India's proposed "look East" policy is also addressed. http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=39904

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61. India and Southeast Asia: Towards Security Convergence
    Sudhir Devare

    Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
    
    India's influence has been felt in Southeast Asia for more than a thousand years. This book looks at a modern aspect of this relationship, including the security dimension of the increasing engagement between India and ASEAN in response to the presence of the United States and China in Asia. The roles of maritime and economic cooperation, of the overseas Indians, and of Myanmar in this growing relationship are explored. http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=38057

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62. India Looks East: Strategies and Impacts
    Dong Zhang AusAID
    
    

    This report was prepared as part of an AusAID study on India's economic rise and its impact on East Asia. Economic reforms and liberalization have underpinned India's rapid economic rise since 1991, and the way such change is undertaken will continue to shape India's long-term growth and international economic relations. Greater exposure to competition has prompted Indian businesses to embark on a growth path based on innovation, efficiency, and profitability. This has resulted in improved competitiveness. Removing infrastructure bottlenecks will lift India's medium-term growth prospects. In 1991, India adopted a "Look East" policy to promote economic integration with East Asia. The policy has supported India's economic transformation and growth, has enabled development of its lagging regions, and is helping India to shape an Asian economic community. To deepen its economic integration with East Asia, however, India must overcome institutional obstacles and improve operational capacity, which are the targets of its next stage of reform and liberalization.
    Available online: http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pdf/india_east.pdf

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63. Integration in Asia and Europe: Convergence or Divergence?
    Paul J.J. Welfens, Franz Knipping, Suthiphand Chirathivat, and Cillian Ryan, eds. Springer
    
    

    Broadening and deepening of economic and political integration are hallmarks of the EU and ASEAN. This book critically analyzes the economic and institutional changes in both Europe and Asia. There is considerable potential for instability, but one also finds regional growth opportunities. Comparative policy analysis and evaluation of various cooperation strategies are presented. Emphasis is on banking, financial market dynamics, ICT, and macroeconomic policies as well as trade, energy, and environmental issues. Legal aspects are combined with historical and economic perspectives. Due emphasis also is placed on the impact of China and the role of international organizations. The comparative analysis of EU and ASEAN integration suggests important policy choices, including those at the multilateral level.
    http://www.springer.com/west/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=4-40109-22-72045920-0

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64. International Economic Integration and Asia (Advanced Research in Asian Economic Studies 3)
    Michael Plummer and Erik Jones, eds. World Scientific
    
    

    Regional economic integration has become a key force in international commercial policy in the early 21st century. Europe has traditionally embraced regionalism; the United States became actively involved in preferential trading arrangements only in the 1980s. While Asia has been late in accepting formal regional economic integration accords, all Asian countries are now in the process of creating various free trade areas and other forms of economic integration programs, and some are already in place. This volume analyzes the regionalism trend from an Asian perspective. It considers the lessons from, and the economic implications of, various economic integration programs in the OECD (mostly the EU, but also NAFTA), as well as the proposals for closer economic integration in the region itself.
    http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=40581

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65. Intra-Asian Trade and the World Market
    John Latham and Heita Kawakatsu, eds. Routledge
    
    

    Intra-Asian trade is a major theme of recent writing on Asian economic history. From the second half of the 19th century, intra-Asian trade flows linked Asia into an integrated economic system, with reciprocal benefits for all participants. But although this was a network from which all gained, there was also considerable inter-Asian competition between Asian producers for these Asian markets and for those of the wider world. This collection presents captivating snapshots of trade in specific commodities such as copper, fur, silk, textiles, and palm oil, alongside chapters comprehensively covering the region. Filling a particular gap in the literature on intra-Asian trade prior to the 20th century, this study contributes to our knowledge of Asian trade both prior to and after the arrival of colonial states. http://www.routledgeasianstudies.com/books/Intra-Asian-Trade-and-the-World-Market-isbn9780415372077

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66. Japan and China in the World Political Economy
    Saadia Pekkanen and Kellee Tsai, eds. Routledge
    
    

    Two powers in East Asia today stand to define the region's economic and commercial future: Japan, which rose in a spectacular industrial burst to become at present the world's second largest economy; and China, which is rapidly advancing toward a market economy under the watchful eye of the world. While much has been made of Japan and China's particular economic institutions and developmental paths, few works analyze them in a comparative framework. Including contributions from leading academics, the text focuses on the period from the 1980s to the onset of the 2000s, reviewing the experiences of Japan and China across the areas of development, trade, investment, finance, and technology. Drawing on a combination of official documents, economic statistics, case studies, and original fieldwork, this book offers a firmer grasp of the role Japan and China stand to play in the world political economy. http://www.routledgeasianstudies.com/books/Japan-and-China-in-the-World-Political-Economy-isbn9780415369015

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67. Japan, Australia and Asia-Pacific Security
    Brad Williams and Andrew Newman, eds. Routledge
    
    

    The threats to security in Southeast Asia have been serious and constant since the end of the Second World War. The book provides an absorbing account of the evolution of a key axis of regional stability-defense contacts between Japan and Australia-tracing the relationship from the early postwar period to the post-9/11 present. Though most works have focused on their economic nexus, Japan and Australia's defense and security ties have assumed increasing importance since the mid-1990s. With problems such as North Korea's nuclear program and the China-Taiwan standoff threatening regional stability, the two countries have sought to strengthen bilateral relations, and indications are that this relationship is likely to grow in the future. Japan, Australia and Asia-Pacific Security explores the evolution of their relationship in the broader context of Asia-Pacific security, addressing regional, subregional, and transnational issues.
    http://www.routledgeasianstudies.com/books/Japan-Australia-and-Asia-Pacific-Security-isbn9780415381390

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68. Japan in a Dynamic Asia: Coping with the New Security Challenges
    Yoichiro Sato and Satu Limaye Lexington Books
    
    

    Japan's increasing activism in its foreign relations in recent years has been brought about by a number of factors, including the end of the Cold War, the drastic growth of China, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and new transnational security threats. The papers in this volume update our understanding of Japan's rapidly changing foreign policies in the context of the new regional power balance and security concerns. Unlike most books on Japan's foreign policy, which focus mainly on US-Japan relations, this work analyzes Japan's relations with individual Asian countries and subregions. The role of the United States, when relevant, is discussed in the context of these bilateral and multilateral relations.
    http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=40942

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69. Key Economic Developments and Prospects in the Asia-Pacific Region 2006
    
70. Key Economic Developments and Prospects in the Asia-Pacific Region 2007
    

    Poverty and Development Division, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
    
    The purpose of the annual Key Economic Developments and Prospects in the Asia-Pacific Region is to provide a review of the international and regional economic environment. The report provides a forward-looking analysis focusing on principal policy issues and challenges likely to confront governments in the region over the near term.
    The 2006 report examines the international environment, prospects for the region in 2006, and subregional economic performance. It also raises key issues of concern for the region, including the potential for a new oil shock, global imbalances, the impact of a yuan revaluation, record reserves in the region, the challenges of avian influenza in the region, and international trade and the WTO agenda.
    The 2007 report, published at the end of 2006, begins with a section that examines the widespread economic gains in 2006, including growth driven by a booming China and India and a reviving Japan. The next section looks at key economic issues on the watch list, asking whether China is "overheating" and looking at financial market volatility risks. The final section offers the outlook for 2007.
    Available online: http://www.unescap.org/publications/detail.asp?id=1119 (2006 edition)
    http://www.unescap.org/publications/detail.asp?id=1177 (2007 edition)

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71. Knowledge, Commitment, Action Against Corruption in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank (ADB)
    
    

    This publication assembles the papers presented during the 5th Regional Anti-Corruption Conference of the ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific, which was held in Beijing, China, on September 28-30, 2005. It reflects the comprehensive discussions, debates, and conclusions on pressing issues relevant to the fight against corruption in Asia and the Pacific. In addition to offering the conference conclusions and recommendations, chapters focus on achievements and new challenges in the fight against corruption in Asia and the Pacific, the role of international organizations and donors in the region's fight against corruption, how the business sector can contribute to the fight against corruption, the role of surveys in anti-corruption reform, preventing corruption in disaster relief operations, conflict of interest in the public sector, and international legal assistance in the prosecution of corruption.
    Available online: http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/knowledge-commitment-action/default.asp

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72. Korea: The East Asia Pivot
    Jonathan D. Pollack, ed. Naval War College Press
    
    

    This authoritative collection of essays, the second in the Policy Studies Series of the Naval War College Press, focuses on North and South Korea. The papers in this volume examine from a variety of perspectives how nearly 60 years after the establishment of rival states on the 38th parallel, and 15 years after the end of the Cold War, "the ground is shifting in Korea." Topics covered in this thought-provoking volume include the setting of Korean politics, political strategies of the two Koreas, and peninsular economic futures. These papers were first presented at the 2004 Naval War College's Asia-Pacific Forum, at which specialists on Korean affairs and regional politics discussed the potential for major change on the Korean Peninsula. Despite the recent concern about North Korean nuclear development, the contributors take a wider view of the region, addressing such topics as the rebirth of ideology in South Korea, Korea's economic dynamics, and the Chinese view of Korea. http://www.bernan.com/Online_Catalog/Title_Page.aspx?TitleID=194770

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73. Labor Markets in Asia: Issues and Perspectives
    Asian Development Bank (ADB); Palgrave Macmillan
    
    

    By conservative estimates, Asia is home to about 500 million workers who are either unemployed or underemployed. Therefore, helping people as workers is critical for poverty reduction. Why are countries across Asia unable to create enough employment for their growing labor forces? Are supposedly rigid labor markets the reason? This volume argues that while labor market reforms may be necessary in some specific cases, by no means are labor market policies the main explanation for the widespread increase in unemployment and stubborn underemployment across Asia.
    Country specific studies for China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam undermine the case for across-the-board labor market reforms. Instead, the authors advocate well-designed, country-specific reforms that target the particular policies that may inhibit employment creation. The authors also argue that governments across developing Asia must bring the objectives of full, productive employment to the top of their agendas.
    http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Labor-Markets/default.asp

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74. Managing Globalization: Lessons from China and India (Inaugural Conference of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy)
    David A. Kelly, Ramkishen S. Rajan, et al., eds. World Scientific Publishing
    
    

    The dynamics of a global economy are being reshaped by the economic emergence of two Asian giants, China and India. How the world's two most populous countries manage globalization as they pursue economic reform and liberalization will significantly impact their societies, the rest of Asia, and the world. This book brings together articles by scholars of China and India to share and discuss their research findings in four areas: challenges, opportunities, and responses to globalization; social security and governance; national security in the age of globalization; and ethnicity and identity in the new world. The book includes an opening address by Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=40106

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75. Managing Sino-American Crises: Case Studies and Analysis
    Michael D. Swaine and Zhang Tuosheng, eds., with Danielle F. S. Cohen Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
    
    

    US-China relations have witnessed significant tensions and conflict over the years. Sensitivities and suspicions between Washington and Beijing have heightened as China's global power and influence have grown. Arguably, this new international order could increase the chances of a political-military crisis-or perhaps outright conflict-between the two powers. Managing Sino-American Crises brings together Chinese and American officials and participants in past confrontations, as well as scholars from both countries, to explore the changing features of crisis behavior and their implications for defusing future encounters. Using conceptual analysis and historical case studies, this authoritative volume identifies specific problems and opportunities that will likely confront both countries in the future. The authors propose recommendations that will improve the effectiveness of US-China crisis management skills.
    http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/clientpr/carnegie/managingsinoamericancrises.htm

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76. MDG Report: Progress in Asia and the Pacific 2006
    UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
    
    

    This report is the latest update on the progress toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Asia and the Pacific. By zooming in on specific indicators, the report highlights the region's achievements and exposes issues on which much work remains to be done. It provides estimates of populations affected by social and economic poverty in the Asia Pacific region and compares it with the two other major developing regions, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean. Asia Pacific countries continue to make progress toward the MDGs, but based on present trends, many are likely to miss some vital targets, including those for infant mortality, HIV prevalence, and access to water and sanitation in urban areas. Even more worryingly, some countries are at risk of failing to reach even two-thirds of the targets.
    Available online: http://www.unescap.org/publications/detail.asp?id=1174

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77. Middle East-Asia Relations: Imagining Alternative Futures
    Ellen Laipson and Emile El-Hokayem Henry L. Stimson Center
    
    

    In light of the high interest in the growing ties between the Gulf region and the energy-hungry Asian powers (China, Japan, India, and Pakistan), the Henry L. Stimson Center is releasing a set of papers that can inform the debate about the future of Middle East-Asia relations and the role of the United States. In 2004, the Stimson Center contributed to the National Intelligence Council's Global Trends 2020 project by convening a series of workshops to consider how the interactions between and among the large states of the Middle East and the rising Asian powers might play out. The first section of this report, which was published in 2006, focuses on Middle East-South Asia relations, including an analysis and three scenarios, and the second section looks at Middle East-China relations, including one scenario. These scenarios are intended to stimulate thinking about potential alternative futures, not to describe or predict the policies and problems of these diverse countries out to the year 2020.
    Available online: http://www.stimson.org/pub.cfm?id=336

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78. Multinationals and Economic Growth in East Asia: Foreign Direct Investment, Corporate Strategies and National Economic Development
    Urata Shujiro, Chia Siow Yue, et al., eds. Routledge
    
    

    Developing countries in East Asia recorded remarkable economic growth until the Asian financial crisis erupted in mid-1997. Although several countries experienced devastating setbacks, most recovered to achieve reasonable rates of economic growth over the next few years. Sound macroeconomic management, export-oriented policies, and the availability of skilled and low-wage labor are among the factors that contributed to the rapid economic growth before the crisis and the recovery thereafter. Especially noteworthy is the role played by foreign direct investment (FDI). This book identifies factors that contributed to the expansion of FDI inflows in East Asia and enabled recipient countries to utilize FDI effectively. It includes case studies on China, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Also included is a comparative study of investing firms headquartered in the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong. The authors conclude that social stability, clear and effective policy implementation, and corporate governance are all key factors in reaping economic success from FDI.
    http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=40216

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79. Multiregionalism and Multilateralism: Asian-European Relations in a Global Context
    Sebastian Bersick, Wim Stokhof, and Paul van der Velde Amsterdam University Press
    
    

    The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) is an interregional forum that consists of the members of the European Union and the ASEAN+3. The main components of the ASEM process include political dialogue, economy, education, and culture. Multiregionalism and Multilateralism focuses on the institutionalization of intraregional and interregional cooperation in the international system, with emphasis on the changing relationship between the EU, China, and India. The role of ASEM in this relationship is growing more important because of the growth of multilateralism as the cornerstone of the international system.
    http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789053569290

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80. New Paradigms for Transpacific Collaboration (Joint US-Korea Academic Studies Series 16)
    James M. Lister, ed. Korea Economic Institute (KEI)
    
    

    The KEI in Washington DC and the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) in Seoul, in cooperation with the University of Washington, cosponsored an academic symposium on the campus of the University of Washington in October 2005 to consider some key developments in Northeast Asia and US foreign policy toward that region. This volume contains the papers presented at the symposium.
    The 2005 symposium examined a range of topics: the implications of advanced economic integration and cooperation in Northeast Asia; developments and possible opportunities in the region's energy sector, the recent impact of economic and political changes in South Korea, North Korean economic reforms and whether the dynamics of the North Korean political and economic systems are shifting, and the Bush administration's foreign policy toward Northeast Asia.
    Available online: http://www.keia.org/joint_studies.php

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81. New Zealand and the Developing FTA Architecture of the Asia-Pacific Region
    Robert Scollay
    APEC Study Centre, University of Auckland
    
    

    Understanding the existing and proposed free trade agreements encompassing the Asian region has increased in importance since the indefinite suspension of the WTO Doha round of trade talks. The Asia New Zealand Foundation (Asia:NZ and the New Zealand Treasury commissioned Dr. Robert Scollay to examine trends in preferential trade in the Asia Pacific region, including simulations of proposed agreements and the impacts on New Zealand.
    Available online: http://www.asianz.org.nz/files/FTA-Architecture_Full-Report.pdf

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82. Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Dilemmas in Securitisation
    Mely Caballero-Anthony, Ralf Emmers, and Amitav Acharya, eds.
    Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDDS), Nanyang Technological University
    
    

    This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the nature of security issues confronting Asia. Given the growing trend of an expanding security agenda beyond the military dimension of interstate relations, this volume provides an extensive study of emerging nontraditional challenges to this region. These challenges include environmental degradation, illegal immigration, HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, transnational crime, poverty, and underdevelopment. In particular, this volume brings together regional perspectives from across Asia, examines how these perspectives are perceived and managed, and develops a systematic conceptual framework. Specifically, this study draws upon, modifies, and operationalizes the concepts of securitization and desecuritization. http://www.idss.edu.sg/publications/books.html

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83. North Korea 2005 and Beyond
    Philip W. Yun and Gi-wook Shin, eds.
    Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University
    
    

    In the summer of 1995, it was fashionable in Washington and Seoul to predict the imminent collapse of North Korea's political and economic systems, and even of the state itself. Ten years on, this volume aims to rectify misconceptions and increase collective understanding about North Korea. It is intended to present a snapshot of what is happening in North Korea economically, politically, and socially. To be sure, there is much we still do not know. Moreover, issues of North Korean nonproliferation are so often binary that compromise becomes difficult, if not impossible. The distinguished contributors-specialists in politics, economics, human rights, and security-advocate a subtler, more multidimensional approach to the North Korea problem. Offering cautionary perspective on this poorly understood place, they highlight recent positive developments and suggest solutions to seemingly intractable problems. Most attest that economics, commerce, and integration may be the most powerful forces for change on the Korean Peninsula. http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/clientpr/aprc/northkorea.htm

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84. Order and Security in Southeast Asia: Essays in Memory of Michael Leifer
    Joseph Chinyong Liow and Ralf Emmers
    Routledge
    
    

    Michael Leifer (1933-2001) was one of the leading scholars of Southeast Asian international relations. He was very influential through his extensive writings and his contacts with people in academia, government, and business in the region. An impressively large number of his students have become leading figures in their own right. In this book of essays, two of Michael Leifer's last PhD students explore and reflect on the key themes of his work on Southeast Asia. http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=38026

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85. Pacific 2020: Challenges and Opportunities for Growth
    AusAID
    
    

    The Pacific 2020 project is an initiative of the Australian minister for foreign affairs, the Hon. Alexander Downer, MP, and was developed and implemented by AusAID, the Australian Agency for International Development. This report was produced as part of the Pacific 2020 project, in collaboration with numerous individuals and organizations from throughout the Pacific islands region and elsewhere.
    Pacific 2020: Challenges and Opportunities for Growth has two parts: part one provides a self-standing overview of the report's context, motivation, key findings and common themes, while part two provides details on each of the nine growth topics studied as part of the project.
    Available online: http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pdf/pacific2020.pdf

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86. The Paramount Power: China and the Countries of Southeast Asia
    Milton Osborne
    Lowy Institute for International Policy
    
    

    In a new Lowy Institute Paper entitled The Paramount Power: China and the Countries of Southeast Asia, Dr. Milton Osborne, an Australian expert on Southeast Asian history, examines how China's relations with Southeast Asia have dramatically changed for the better in the last 10 years. FTAs and strategic partnerships have replaced decades of mistrust and uncertainty. China is now the paramount power in Southeast Asia with significant soft power resources and regional goodwill. China's new role poses new challenges for Japan and the United States in the region and globally.
    Available online: http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=370

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87. The Paths Ahead: Missile Defense in Asia
    Jeremiah Gertier
    Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
    
    

    The Paths Ahead reviews the current situation and future prospects of ballistic missile defense (BMD) in Asia. The study considers the threats to-and defensive capabilities of-Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, India, and Australia and illustrates the BMD policy choices each faces. It also outlines policy options for the United States, should it choose to assist in providing defenses. The Paths Ahead draws on the expertise of numerous foreign policy and missile defense experts.
    Available online: http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,3019/type,1/

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88. Piracy, Maritime Terrorism and Securing the Malacca Straits
    Graham Gerard Ong-Webb, ed.
    
    

    Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) and International Institute for Asian Studies Maritime piracy continues to persist as a significant phenomenon manifesting a range of social, historical, geopolitical, security, and economic issues. Today, the waters of Southeast Asia serve as the dominant region for the occurrence of piracy and the challenges it poses to regional security and Malacca Straits security. As a second installment within the Series on Maritime Issues and Piracy in Asia, published by the International Institute of Asian Studies at Leiden University and ISEAS, the authors of this volume add fresh perspectives to the ongoing debate about piracy, the threat of maritime terrorism, and the challenge of securing the Malacca Straits today. http://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/

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89. Political Fences and Bad Neighbors: North Korea Policy Making in Japan & Implications for the United States
    James L. Schoff
    Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA)
    
    

    In September 2005, the IFPA began a study of recent trends concerning Japan-North Korea relations and the mechanics of Japanese foreign policymaking toward North Korea. The goal of the study was to enhance US policymakers' understanding of the current and future political dynamics in Japan on the North Korean question, in part by closely examining the underlying trends related to Japanese public opinion toward North Korea, to the changing personalities and policymaking habits and structures in the Japanese government, and to ways that the media and policy pressure groups influence the North Korea debate in Japan. This report describes the findings of the project's research and interviews, and it seeks to identify the determining factors behind Japan's evolving North Korea policy and to assess their implications for US policymakers in the near and medium term.
    Available online: http://www.ifpa.org/pdf/fences.pdf

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90. Politics of Death: Political Violence in Southeast Asia (Southeast Asian Modernities 4)
    Aurel Croissant, Beate Martin, et al., eds.
    LIT-Verlag
    
    

    This volume analyzes four aspects of political violence in Southeast Asia: elections and violence; intra-ethnic conflict; communist insurgency; terrorism and religious extremism; and lethal crime and politics. Together, the 10 case studies on Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand challenge the idea that democratic governance will bring an end to internal violent conflict. As some examples in the region suggest, semi-democratic polities in Southeast Asia may even be more successful in reducing levels of internal violence compared with new democracies in their neighborhood and other types of political regimes they have tried in the past. http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=41366

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91. Poverty, Health, and Ecosystems: Experience from Asia
    Asian Development Bank (ADB)
    
    

    The majority of Asia's poor live in rural areas where ecosystems they depend on are facing strains from unsustainable exploitation or conversion to other uses, according to a new publication launched by the ADB and the World Conservation Union (IUCN). The book, Poverty, Health, and Ecosystems: Experience from Asia, offers 16 case studies that highlight the challenges faced by these poor and often resource-dependent households across Asia, and offers new insights into the relationships between healthy ecosystems and healthy people. The cases also delve into the social processes that underpin poverty and often perpetuate the unsustainable management of natural systems-by both the poor and non-poor, and by local and external groups. The case studies present a range of efforts to overcome such problems, often relying on alliances between civil society and development agencies and resource-based NGOs that can help facilitate wider legal redress. The book was prepared as part of the ADB's Poverty and Environment Program.
    Available online: http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Poverty-Health-Ecosystems/default.asp

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92. Power Shift: China and Asia's New Dynamics
    David Shambaugh, ed.
    University of California Press
    
    

    The dynamics of international relations in Asia are undergoing broad and fundamental changes that are reverberating around the world. The primary catalyst of change in the region is the rise of China as the engine of regional economic growth, as a major military power, as a significant voice in regional diplomacy, and as a proactive power in multilateral institutions. With in-depth assessments by 17 leading experts on China's foreign relations, this volume offers a comprehensive analysis of China's emerging influence on international relations in Asia. The contributors explore the various dimensions of China's rise, its influence on the region, the consequences for the United States, and alternative models of the evolving Asian order. What emerges is a clear picture of China increasingly at the center of the regional web; while North Korea and Taiwan could erupt in conflict, the predominant trend in Asia is the creation of an extensive web of mutual interdependence among states and nonstate actors.
    http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10447.php

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93. The Powers of Ideas: Intellectual Input and Political Change in East and Southeast Asia
    Claudia Derichs and Thomas Heberer, ed.
    NIAS Press/ Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
    
    

    The traditional approach to studying the politics of a region is to focus on events, personalities, and issues-the mechanics of the political process. What this volume looks to do is to step back and examine ideas and visions, as well as those who articulate them and/or put them into operation. The contributors thus aim to conceptualize what discourse means for political change in East and Southeast Asia, and how ideas in discourses affect political practice. As well as theorizing on the roles of intellectuals, ideas, and discourses for processes of democratization, reform, and change, the chapters also offer insights into the national and local, the general and the specific situation of the selected countries. http://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/

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94. Prospects for Regional Financial and Monetary Integration in East Asia
    Yung-chul Park and Doo-yong Yang
    Korea Institute for International Economic Policy
    
    

    The financial crisis that erupted in 1997 weakened the region's confidence and gave a strong impetus to the search for a regional mechanism that could forestall future crises. This search has been gathering momentum and opening the door to possibly significant policy-led integration in East Asia. The adoption and implementation of the Chiang Mai Initiative (CMI) and Asian Bond Market Initiative (ABMI) could be counted as a major step toward strengthening financial and monetary cooperation in East Asia.
    This study begins by examining financial market liberalization and integration, looking at the potential benefits of financial integration and the connection between financial integration and monetary unification. The next sections focus on capital flows in Asia, financial globalization and real (trade) regionalization, the economic rationale for a regional financial arrangement in East Asia, recent developments in the CMI and ABMI, exchange rate policy coordination for monetary unification, and barriers to financial cooperation and integration.
    Available online: http://www.kiep.go.kr/eng/std_data_view.asp?num=131974&sCate=013002&sSubCate=&lTp=r&nowPage=3&listCnt=15

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95. Pursuing Gender Equality through the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank (ADB) , the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
    
    

    Pursuing Gender Equality through the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific was published jointly by the ADB, the UNDP, and UNESCAP. The paper is part of a series of studies identifying critical issues and problems concerning the timely achievement of the MDGs. If the MDGs are to be achieved, ensuring gender equality and women's empower-ment is essential. Yet despite formal commitments made by countries to guarantee equality between the sexes, and despite the demonstrated benefits of gender equality to societies and economies, gender discrimination remains pervasive in the Asia Pacific region. MDG progress reports and studies from across Asia Pacific confirm the interrelationships between the gender-specific MDGs and all of the other goals, as well as the importance of a gender perspective in any strategy to achieve these goals. This report provides examples of promising initiatives and supportive institutions, and recommends a number of actions that key stakeholders should take.
    Available online: http://www.adb.org/Documents/books/pursuing-gender-equality/default.asp

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96. Regional Action Plan towards the Information Society in Asia and the Pacific
    Information, Communication and Space Technology (ICSTD), UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
    
    

    This publication is a further step in the direction envisaged in the Regional Roadmap towards an Information Society. It addresses the key issues relating to the application of information and communication technologies and outlines how the global and regional initiatives could promote and catalyze actions at the regional and national levels. It outlines a comprehensive plan and strategic framework for collaborative ICT programs and projects at the regional level for realizing the vision of an inclusive and sustainable information society in Asia Pacific.
    Available online: http://www.unescap.org/icstd/Pubs/st_escap_2415.pdf

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97. Regional Cooperation and its Enemies in Northeast Asia: The Impact of Domestic Forces
    Edward Friedman and Sung-chull Kim, eds.
    Routledge
    
    

    Examining the prospects for building a regional community in Northeast Asia, this book considers the foreign policies of the individual states as well as the impact of domestic politics on the regionalist agenda. It outlines the emerging Northeast Asian community and the domestic requisites for its evolution and realization, and puts it in context by comparing the emerging community with Southeast Asia.
    The book investigates the attitudes of the key powers, including China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Russia, and the United States, toward the ideal of greater regional cooperation, with particular emphasis on the implications of domestic factors in each country for regional dynamics. It concludes by identifying the foremost dangers that risk obstructing greater regional cooperation, particularly the China-Japan rivalry, nationalist sentiments, territorial disputes, and energy competition.
    http://www.routledgeasianstudies.com/books/Regional-Co-operation-and-Its-Enemies-in-Northeast-Asia-isbn9780415399227

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98. Regional Integration in East Asia and Europe: Convergence or Divergence?
    Bertrand Fort and Douglas Webber, eds.
    Routledge
    
    

    A fascinating insight into how regional organizations in Europe and East Asia are currently grappling with a striking number of essentially similar challenges, this issue-based overview of political integration focuses on the differences and similarities in regional integration levels and processes in the two regions in order to examine how the long-term future, role, and impact of organizations such as the EU and ASEAN may depend heavily on how well they deal with complex and conflict-laden issues in the next few years.
    This volume analyzes the historical development, current state, and prospective future evolution of political integration in the two regions. Leading Asian and European scholars identify key variables that account for the contrasting political integration levels, clearly demonstrating and explaining why the rhythm of integration in both regions varies.
    http://www.routledge.com/

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99. Regional Outlook: Southeast Asia 2006-2007
    Russell Hiang-Khng Heng and Rahul Sen, eds.
    Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
    
    

    Launched in 1992, Regional Outlook is an annual publication of ISEAS published every January. Designed for the busy executive, professional, diplomat, journalist, or interested observer, Regional Outlook aims to provide a succinct analysis of current political and economic trends shaping the region and the outlook for the forthcoming two years. This forward-looking book contains focused political commentaries and economic forecasts on all 10 countries in Southeast Asia, as well as a select number of topical pieces of significance to the region.
    Available online: http://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/

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100. Regional Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, A CSCAP Study Group Report (Issues & Insights 10, no. 6)
     Pacific Forum CSIS
     
     

     This is a report on the second meeting of the CSCAP Study Group on Regional Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, convened on March 11-12, 2006, in Vancouver. Twenty-two participants came from South Asia, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and North America and had extensive professional training in government, military, civilian policing, academia, NGOs, and former and current UN and other multilateral monitoring, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding missions. The study group identified several political, operational, and organizational challenges to, and opportunities for, expanding and improving upon the Asia Pacific's current contributions to international peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts.
     Available online: http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,3380/type,1/

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101. Regionalism in Southeast Asia
     Nicholas Tarling
     Routledge
     
     

     Regionalism in Southeast Asia provides the reader with a historical analysis of Southeast Asia from the distinct perspective of regionalism. Southeast Asian history is usually written from a national point of view, which underplays the links between neighboring states and nations and the effects of these bonds on the development of regionalism. This innovative book begins by defining the meaning of "region" and "regionalism" and then applies those terms to periods in history in Southeast Asia, looking at how patterns of regionalism have shifted through time to the present day. By focusing on the regional perspective, Tarling gives an original treatment of Southeast Asian history, its political dynamics, and its international relations. Regionalism in Southeast Asia completes a trilogy of books on Southeast Asia by Nicholas Tarling, the other two being Nationalism in Southeast Asia and Imperialism in Southeast Asia. http://www.routledgeasianstudies.com/books/Regionalism-in-Southeast-Asia-isbn9780415379625

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102. The Role of Public Administration in Building a Harmonious Society
     Raza Ahmad, ed.
     Asian Development Bank (ADB)
     
     

     This volume brings together a selection of papers presented at the 2005 annual conference of the Network of Asia-Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance, held in Beijing in December 2005. The meeting's theme was the role of public administration in building a harmonious society. The papers explore a number of subthemes: citizen participation and local autonomy, public administration strategies, innovations in governance and public service, conflict resolution and peace building, demographic transitions and imbalances, healthcare for the poor, and the teaching of public administration and policy.
     This collection of papers reflects the diversity of "grounded" voices to be found in the region. While the approaches are different, a distinguishing feature is the depth of local knowledge they exhibit and the manner in which innovation from within the Asia Pacific region is highlighted.
     Available online: http://www.adb.org/documents/Books/Role-Public-Admin-Building-Harmonious-Society/default.asp

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103. Russia-ASEAN Relations: New Directions
     Gennady Chufrin, Mark Hong, Teo Kah Beng, eds.
     
     

     Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) and Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) With the rise of India and China, the rest of Asia is feeling the great impact of socioeconomic changes and challenges created by these twin engines of progress and cooperation. The question on the minds of regional analysts is, Where is Russia in the midst of these vast changes? What is its role? How and why is a great power like Russia adopting such a low profile in the region? In what ways can ASEAN engage Russia?
     Currently, Russia's interaction with ASEAN is limited to dialogue between both parties; trade between both sides is categorized by Russian arms sales and ASEAN raw materials. This book sets out to help explain these anomalies and puzzles by examining the state of relations between Russia and selected individual ASEAN countries. Several interesting ideas are offered, such as a proposal for a Russia-ASEAN FTA, building tourism and business bridges through budget airlines, and strengthening and energizing the ASEAN-Russia dialogue.
     http://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/
     http://www.imemo.ru/en/publ/index2006.php

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104. Shifting Terrain: The Domestic Politics of the US Military Presence in Asia
     Sheila A. Smith
     East-West Center
     
     

     The United States has maintained military forces in the Asia Pacific region since the end of World War II, and its alliances with key countries in the region continue to be seen as critical to regional peace and stability. Attention has focused on the shifting regional balance of power or new sources of instability in the region, yet complex social and political changes in the countries that have hosted US forces are changing the way governments in Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines manage the American troops stationed in their countries.
     As the US government seeks to transform and realign its global military presence, Washington must consider these new domestic influences on governments that host US forces. Broad public support in these societies for a shared security agenda will be the foundation for future alliance cooperation. But Washington, Tokyo, Seoul, and Manila must give greater attention to the local impacts of US forces and develop policies that mitigate the pressures on local residents.
     Available online: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/publications/search-for-publications/browse-alphabetic-list-of-titles/?class_call=view&pub_ID=1979&mode=view

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105. Southeast Asia in Search of an ASEAN Community
     Rodolgo C. Severino
     Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
     
     

     This volume on ASEAN reappraises the organization from the inside, through controversial or perplexing issues such as the "ASEAN Way"; the accession of the new members, including Myanmar; the principle of noninterference; regional security; regional economic integration; haze; SARS; and ASEAN's future.
     Written by the former ASEAN secretary-general, this book illuminates the inner workings of the key Southeast Asian regional institution. It is a must-read for journalists, policymakers, political scientists, and others who need an insider's view on how ASEAN has evolved, how it operates, and whether it will remain relevant in the evolving Asia Pacific and global order.
     http://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/

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106. Southeast Asia: Threats in the Security Environment
     T. H. Andrew Tan
     Marshall Cavendish Academic
     
     

     Of late, Southeast Asia has come into prominence as the "second front" in the global war on terrorism. This extra-regional designation, which initially caused angst and consternation, has given way to the region's participation, to varying degrees of enthusiasm, in the war on terrorism. Events such as the discovery of the Al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah (JI) network and the deadly Bali bomb attack in 2002 have brought the region into focus as a frontline in the war on international terrorism. As a very significant proportion of world trade and oil traverses the region's vital waterways, there is growing international recognition of the strategic importance of Southeast Asia. This book consists of a selection of the author's conference papers, commentaries, and articles (1999-2004), now updated and revised.
     http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=39276

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107. Southeast Asian Studies: Debates and New Directions
     Cynthia Chou and Vincent Houben, eds.
     Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
     
     

     What is the relevance of the area studies approach to Southeast Asia? The current state and future directions of area studies, of which Southeast Asian studies are a part, is a central question not only to scientists working in the field but also those engaged in university politics. This collection of nine articles is written by specialists from different disciplinary backgrounds and working in institutions of higher learning all around the world. It provides an up-to-date insight into the current state of the study field, including its strengths and weaknesses, and seeks ways to reconfigure Southeast Asian studies in order to meet the challenges of a region that is caught up in profound transformation as a consequence of both globalization and localization.
     http://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/

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108. Spatial Disparities in Human Development: Perspectives from Asia
     Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables, and Guanghua Wan, eds.
     United Nations University Press
     
     

     Spatial disparities are a measure of the unequal distribution of income, wealth, power, and resources between peoples in different locations. This book focuses on issues of poverty and inequality that are directly related to the Millennium Development Goals. It addresses a wide range of issues, including interlinkages between conflict and inequality, poverty mapping, and the causes and consequences of inequality. It applies the latest research techniques, such as regression-based decomposition, poverty decomposition, and computable general equilibrium models. Containing theoretical and empirical contributions by some of the most prominent economists in the area of inequality and development studies, the book examines spatial disparities in areas including China, Russia, and Central Asia.
     http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/clientpr/unupress/spatialdisparities.htm

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109. State of the Environment in Asia and the Pacific 2005: Economic Growth and Sustainability
     UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
     
     

     The State of the Environment in Asia and the Pacific 2005 report is a major review of sustainable development issues and environmental conditions and trends in Asia Pacific. It has been published every five years by UNESCAP since 1985, with the support of the government of Japan. Key findings form the basis for the deliberations at the Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development.
     The 2005 report takes a new and deeper look at the pressures on the environment arising from rapid economic growth in the region. It argues that member governments have made progress in improving environmental performance, but because of the limited environmental carrying capacity of the region and the immense pressure exerted by the changing consumption and production patterns, environmental degradation continues. The publication elaborates on "green growth" policy measures as a key requirement for achieving MDG 7 (environmental sustainability) and MDG 1 (poverty reduction).
     Available online: http://unescap.org/esd/environment/soe/2005/mainpub/

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110. State of the Region 2006-2007
     Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC)
     
     

     A recent report on the state of the Asia Pacific region predicts a modest economic slowdown and warns that APEC is at risk of becoming irrelevant. PECC's State of the Region report forecasts real GDP growth of 4.3 percent in 2007 for the region as a whole, down from an expected 5.0 percent this year. The slowdown will be led by the United States, due to the cumulative effect of higher oil prices and rising interest rates over the last two years. The report includes findings from a survey of 370 regional opinion leaders and commentary on key risks and challenges facing the region. Charles E. Morrison, PECC international chair, notes that this survey is the first of its kind and that it provides unique insight into the views of government officials, scholars, and businesspeople from 21 economies.
     Available online: http://www.pecc.org/sotr/default.htm#SOTR2006

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111. Strategic Asia 2006-07: Trade, Interdependence and Security
     Ashley J. Tellis and Michael Wills
     National Bureau for Asian Research (NBR)
     
     

     This book examines the strategic balance in Asia and the increasing levels of trade and interdependence in the region, assessing the implications for the United States. Strategic Asia 2006-07: Trade, Interdependence, and Security, the sixth volume in NBR's Strategic Asia series, examines how trade and interdependence fit into the grand strategies of various Asian states and how changing economic relationships could affect regional stability in Asia. Through a combination of country, regional, and topical studies, the book assesses trade and investment dynamics in the region, the rise of new powers, the ongoing processes of globalization, and the impact of economic interdependence on security, and evaluates how these trends are altering Asia's strategic environment.
     Available online: http://www.nbr.org/publications/book.aspx?ID=14

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112. Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific
     Robert Ayson and Desmond Ball, eds.
     Allen & Unwin Academic
     
     

     In this volume, 20 specialists from the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at Australian National University explore some of the recent momentous changes in regional and international strategic affairs. Part One addresses general and international issues and Part Two looks at the Asia Pacific region, including the evolving power relationship between the United States and China.
     http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=40183

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113. Studying Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Trends and Issues
     Mely Caballero-Anthony, Ralf Emmers, and Amitav Acharya, eds.
     Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDDS), Nanyang Technological University
     
     

     The security challenges confronting Asia today go beyond the traditional dimensions of security and tend to be more diverse than what the region has ever known before. Issues like infectious diseases, trafficking in illegal drugs, irregular migration, environmental degradation, financial crisis, and natural disasters are increasingly being treated as pressing concerns with serious security implications. Such concerns pose threats to the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of nation-states as well as to the welfare and security of their respective societies and individuals.
     Consisting of a collection of essays, this volume presents current trends and research directions in nontraditional security in Asia. It is structured around research projects undertaken by various research institutes in the region, showcasing their major findings and highlighting key implications for the field of nontraditional security studies. http://www.idss.edu.sg/publications/books.html

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114. Transforming East Asia: The Evolution of Regional Economic Integration
     Naoko Munakata
     Brookings Institution Press and the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry
     
     

     East Asian economic integration is on the rise. Free trade agreements have proliferated throughout the region, and moves toward broader forms of regional cooperation are afoot. These initiatives have caused alarm in some quarters, leading observers to warn that East Asia may become a closed, inward-looking bloc. In this timely and important book, Naoko Munakata challenges this pessimistic interpretation.
     Drawing on two decades of experience as an economic official and trade negotiator, Munakata argues that East Asian integration has little to do with either defensiveness or anti-Western sentiment. Instead, it reflects pragmatic calculations of economic interest, as well as a desire to build trust and a sense of community across the region. Transforming East Asia explores the impact these factors have had on developments since the mid-1980s, a tumultuous period in the region. The book also offers policy prescriptions for building on regionalism's achievements to date while identifying key uncertainties about the prospects for an East Asian community.
     http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/transformingeastasia.htm

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115. Transnational Migration and Work in Asia
     Kevin Hewison and Ken Young, eds.
     Routledge Asian Studies
     
     

     Focusing on the issues associated with migrating for work both in and from the Asian region, this book sheds light on the debate over migration and trafficking. With contributions from an international team of well-known scholars, the book sets labor migration firmly within the context of globalization, providing a focused, contemporary discussion of what is undoubtedly a major 21st century concern.
     Transnational Migration and Work in Asia analyzes workers' motivations and rationales, highlighting the similarities of migration experiences throughout Asia. Presenting in-depth case studies of the real-life experiences and problems faced by migrant workers, the book discusses migrants' relations with the state and their vulnerability to exploitation, as well as the major policy issues now facing governments, employers, NGOs, and international agencies. http://www.routledgeasianstudies.com/books/Transnational-Migration-and-Work-in-Asia-isbn9780415368896

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116. Twenty-Two Years of ASEAN-ISIS: Origin, Evolution and Challenges of Track Two Diplomacy
     Hadi Soesastro, Clara Joewono, and Carolina G. Hernandez, eds.
     Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Jakarta
     
     

     This volume looks back on 22 years of the ASEAN-ISIS network. The book begins with a tribute to the founder of ASEAN-ISIS, Noordin Sopiee, who passed away in 2005. Leading scholars from the region offer their reflections on the contributions of ASEAN-ISIS and the role of track two diplomacy in the region. http://www.csis.or.id/publications_book_view.asp?id=58&tab=0

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117. United Nations Seminar on Implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1540 in Asia and the Pacific (UN DDA Occasional Papers no. 11)
     UN Department for Disarmament Affairs (DDA)
     
     

     Conference proceeding from a 2006 UN conference on nonproliferation and disarmament efforts in Asia Pacific in keeping with UN Security Council Resolution 1540, which established for the first time binding obligations on all UN member states under Chapter VII of the UN Charter to take and enforce effective measures against the proliferation of WMD, their means of delivery, and related materials. It was intended to ensure that no state or nonstate actor is a source of WMD proliferation.
     Sixty-seven government officials from 28 countries and from international organizations gathered in July 2006 to share their experiences in preparing their national reports and implementing resolution 1540, with a special focus on export controls, international assistance, and lessons learned.
     Available online: http://disarmament.un.org/DDApublications/OP1106-64948web.pdf

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118. Urbanization and Sustainability in Asia: Case Studies of Good Practice
     Asian Development Bank (ADB)
     
     

     The book presents case studies of good practices on sustainable urban development from 12 Asian countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. It provides insights into current issues, management approaches, and investment types in urban development in the Asian setting. It also provides other examples of good practices in sustainable urban region development in the context of more advanced economies. It is a useful reference for city managers, political leaders, and professionals responsible for planning and managing the development of cities.
     Available online: http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Urbanization-Sustainability/default.asp

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119. US Alliances in Asia: Views of the Next Generation (Issues & Insights 6, no. 6)
     Brad Glosserman, ed.
     Pacific Forum CSIS
     
     

     Long-standing security alliances with Japan and the Republic of Korea have been a cornerstone of US engagement in Northeast Asia and with the broader Asia Pacific region. Those alliances have come under increasing scrutiny as the regional security environment has evolved. Critics charge their raison d'�tre has vanished with the dissolution of the Soviet Union and that their continued existence, as currently configured, is problematic for regional security. Beijing's antipathy to those alliances influences the thinking of US allies as they contemplate their relationships with Washington. Change is also taking place within Japan and the ROK.
     This volume includes papers from two conferences held in early 2006 that looked closely at the state of those alliances and their future. The discussions, which involved young leaders from the region, focused on changing perceptions of the external environment, of domestic political priorities, of each ally's place in the world, and of the United States itself.
     Available online: http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/issuesinsights_v06n06.pdf

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120. US-China Relations and East Asia Regionalism: What Lies Ahead? (Issues & Insights 6, no. 1)
     Ralph Cossa
     Pacific Forum CSIS
     
     

     This monograph briefly addresses five major issue areas affecting Sino-US relations: China-Taiwan cross-Strait developments, in which growing confidence in Washington's and Beijing's intentions and a severe limiting of Taiwan independence advocates' options have resulted in at least a temporary defusing of this volatile issue; the North Korea nuclear crisis and broader Korean Peninsula issues, which provide the best current example of Sino-US strategic cooperation but which could easily unravel over a variety of issues; the promotion of freedom, democracy, and human rights; economic disagreements focused on balance of payments and revaluation issues; and the impact of more proactive Chinese diplomacy. It also addresses growing multilateral cooperation through current and emerging mechanisms, with special focus on the 2005 East Asia Summit and ongoing attempts at East Asia community building, arguing that this could, but does not currently or necessarily, represent another potential Sino-US "battlefield."
     Available online: http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/issuesinsights_v06n01.pdf

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121. Whither the Six-Party Talks?: Issues, Stakes and Perspectives (NZAI Reg. Analysis 2006/1)
     Zhang Yongjin, ed.
     New Zealand Asia Institute, University of Aukland
     
     

     These 10 short papers from the New Zealand Asia Institute discuss a number of issues related to the ongoing Six-Party Talks, which have been addressing nuclear arms development in North Korea since 2003. Some of the papers present the participating countries' perspectives on the "nuclearization" of the peninsula, including two from the point of view of Australia and New Zealand.
     http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=40701

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122. Yearbook of Asian Affairs 2006
     Institute of Developing Economies (IDE)
     
     

     The English edition of the Japanese Yearbook of Asian Affairs 2006 (main sections only) offers information and analyses by research experts on the rapidly evolving trends in Asia. Chapters examine China's and India's rapid growth and the struggle for leadership in Asia, FTAs in Asia and the full-scale debate on the East Asian Community in 2005, the significance of and issues at the first East Asia Summit, the United States and Asia under pressure of domestic affairs, and the impact of high oil prices on the Asian economy. The second part of the book provides reviews by country and region.
     Available online: http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Books/Yearbook/

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