This book contains: 1. Fifth AFTA ministerial council meeting 2. Twenty-Sixth meeting of the ASEAN economic ministers 3. Post AEM with MITI-Japan
This book is written in an easily understood style. It explains the background of the origin of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) of which there are 10 member-countries. The author looks at the progress made, as well as the problems that the association faces. This is the 2nd book in the ISEAS Southeast Asia Background Series. Table of …
Globalization, like many great geopolitical ideologies before it, is now dead. Despite the almost-religious certainty with which it was originally conceived, a growing vagueness now surrounds the original promise of the global ideal that the fading power of nation states would be replaced by global markets that economics, not politics or arms, would determine the course of human events and that…
Here Mike Moore examines the implications of the post industrial economy, the emerging information age, and how New Zealand can best prosper within the global economy. He warns of the serious economic consequences of ignoring our social, intellectual and infrastructural deficits and makes a case for New Zealand's endangered middle class, advancing the significant proposition that New Zealand mo…
On 12 November 1995 CSIS in conjunction with Australian Defence Studies Centre (ADSC), Canberra organised a workshop on "Potential Linkages between Economic and Regional Security Fora". The papers presented at the workshop have been edited and compiled in this volume entitled The Role of Security and Economic Cooperation Structures in the Asia Pacific Region Indonesian and Australian Views This…
Book Megatrends (1982) sold more than 8 million copies world wide and remained at the top of the bestseller lists for two years. That book, and Megatrends 2000, established John Naisbitt as one of the world's foremost forecasters of social, economic, political and cultural trends. In those books, he accurately predicted trends ranging from the globalisation of the econo- my to the surging Impac…
Even before the terrorist networks are neutralized, the global coalition should confront the economic, political and cultural problems in the international arena that cry out for collective action.
For the purpose of this inquiry the 'Third World' is taken to consist of all the countries of South and South East Asia; the countries of Africa which are not under white rule; all the countries of the Middle East and West Asia, except Turkey; all the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean; the new states of the Pacific and the Koreas. These countries, which number 119, are listed in Appe…
For the national interest, Australia issues a foreign and trade policy which contains national interests which include security, economy and values. In addition, there are policies to face the new century and shape the future of Australia.