The contens of this book: 1. opening Addres - Lee Kuan Yew 2. U.S Policy in the Asia-Pacific region: meeting the challeges of the post cold-war era - George Bush 3, Discussion 4. CLosing Remarks - K.S Sandhu
This book provides a framework for considering the ramifications of Japan's expanding role and influence in the Asia-Pacific region. It documents Japan's emergence as the regional "core economy"; reviews the factors that may influence Tokyo's future political and military role; poses alternative scenarios for the evolving Asia-Pacific economic, political and security order; analyses the factors…
This book gets to the marrow of the matter in East Asia. It is free of the distortions, misrepresentations, and irrelevancies which have so marred the debate on Vietnam and so filled most of the current literature on crises in Asia. In the author seeks to find out how the Asians can take over the primary responsibility for security while the United States decreases its involvement. Thus, he add…
This collection of essays and speeches by Professor Tommy Koh were delivered and written in his capacity as the Executive Director of ASEF. It contains his thoughts on the three pillars of Asia-Europe relations: politics, economics, and civil society. Readers will find in this book his assessment of some of the key trends shaping the emerging world order and some crucial events affecting the tr…