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Discusses 1950s letter-writing campaign to support the IPR in its efforts to maintain funding by the Rockefeller Foundation (RF); includes role of American scholars and the US government, and contemporary significance of this support for an NGO.

There is much discussion today about broadening the concept of security to make it more appropriate to contemporary international affairs. The author challenges the re-definition thesis by arguing that, rather than re-defining security in the late 20th century, proponents of this thesis are actually re-discovering security as it was defined in the early 20th century. In presenting a counter thesis, the present-day relevance of the Institute of Public Relations (1925-1960) is explored, particularly its connection and similarity to the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (founded in 1993). (DÜI-Sen)

In an attempt to demonstrate what the Asia-Pacific policy network in Canada is and is not, the author reviews the evolution of Asia-Pacific attentiveness in Canadian policy circles. He notes that the present structure and direction of the emergent policy network is coordinated by entities such as the Canadian Consortium on Asia Pacific security. (DÜI-Sen)

The Pacific economic co-operation concept has undergone widespread examination in the academic, business and government circles since the mid-1960s. Three international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) - the Pacific Trade and Development Conference, the Pacific Basin Economic Council and the Pacific Economic Co-operation Conference - have been routinely cited among the concept's chief proponents. The author examines how the INGOs promoting the idea of Pacific economic co-operation have contributed to the regional diplomatic framework. (DÜI-Sen)

The utility of a non-governmental approach to diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific is illustrated in this paper. Two case studies of consensus building within the Pacific Economic Co-operation Conference (PECC) in advance of its fifth general meeting in Vancouver in 1986 are examined: the effort to secure the participation of the PRC and the debate over observer status for the USSR. The research suggests that the non-governmental coup embodied by the Chinese, Taiwanese and Soviet presence at PECC V. was dependent upon governmental recognition of and attempts to preserve this organization's diplomatic value. (DÜI-Sen)

There have been changes in the USSR's diplomatic strategy in Asia-Pacific under M. Gorbachev. The article sketches out and analyses how other major Asia-Pacific nations are reacting to the prospect of Soviet participation in economic co-operation efforts in this region. Soviet interactions with PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference), PBEC (Pacific Basin Economic Council) and PECC (Pacific Economic Co-operation Conference) are discussed. (DÜI-Sen)