180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1992, Pacific Asia in the 1990s explores the main economic and political trends among the Pacific Asian countries in the second half of the 1980s. It suggests where the potential problems lie and where the opportunities are.   This book is an unusual collaborative venture in that it combines the complementary viewpoints of a Japanese author, a Malaysian author and someone... Read more

Preface  Introduction  1. The region’s economy: patterns of prosperity  2. The security context: region in flux  3. The developmental state: a tentative framework  4. The newly industrializing economies  5. Southeast Asia: unity within diversity  6. China and the socialist states  7. Japan as facilitator  8. Pacific Asia in the 1990s    

Biography

Masahide Shibusawa is a former Visiting Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Zakaria Haji Ahmad, a political scientist by training is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the HELP University, Kuala Lumpur. He is also the Distinguished Fellow at the Malaysian Armed Forces Defence College (MAFDC).

Brian Bridges is a former Head of the Asia-Pacific Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Review of the first publication:

‘…a timely and balanced analysis of the political, economic, and military security situation in Pacific Asia…’

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 52, Issue 1