Asia-Pacific and a New International Order

Preface; The Pacific Century and the Post-Cold War World; Asia Pacific Political and Economic Circumstances in an Era of Global and Regional Transformation; Strategic Resets, Security Ripples and US Interests in the; China and India; 'Islamic Fundamentalism' in the Asia-Pacific Region: Failures of Civil Societies or Backlash against the US Hegemony?; Post-Cold War U.S: Foreign Policy in Asia; Redefining Ideology: Russia and Asia in the Putin Era Japan And A New International Order: A Case For An East Asian Community; Peaceful Development: Chinas "Policy of Assurance"; South Korea vis-á-vis the International Disorder: Internal Split and External Initiative; Indonesia Transforming; Responses and Options for Malaysia to the Changing Regional Security Environment; The New International Order in the Asia-Pacific Region: Thailands Responses and Options; Indias Quest for Strategic Space in the 'New' International Order! Locations, (Re)Orientations and Opportunities; Pakistan and the Bush Doctrine: Consensual Foreign Policy?; The Middle East: An Overview; Iran's Security Perspectives and the Greater Middle East Initiative; Australia and the South Pacific; Index.