Twenty-First Century World Order and the Asia Pacific: Value Change, Exigencies, and Power Realignment

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Foreword....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
World Order of the New Century: Prospects and Perils....Pages 17-55
Globalization and Its Meanings for World Order: A Discourse in Conceptual Rethinking....Pages 57-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
The Asia Pacific Region: Challenges in the New Era....Pages 77-133
The “Globalization Project” and East Asia: An Opportunity or a Trap?....Pages 135-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Europe and the Asia Pacific: Two Regions in Search of a Relationship....Pages 159-173
Regional Trade and Security Arrangements in the Asia Pacific and the Western Hemisphere in Comparative Perspective....Pages 175-212
ASEAN Regionalism and Southeast Asia’s Systemic Challenges....Pages 213-253
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
American Views of Asia-Pacific Security: Comprehensive or Military....Pages 257-286
A Reinvigorated Version of Japan’s Comprehensive Security: Key to Stability in the Asia Pacific....Pages 287-307
China in Search of Comprehensive Security....Pages 309-325
Front Matter....Pages 327-327
Realistic Exchange Rates: A Post-Asian Financial Crisis Perspective....Pages 329-339
Front Matter....Pages 341-341
The Emergent Global and Asian Regional Order: Complementarity and Divergence....Pages 343-378
Back Matter....Pages 379-390