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1983. - Bangkok : ESCAP, Trade Promotion Centre, International Trade Division. - 708 S.; 1984. - London : Graham & Trotman. - 778 S.; 3rd ed. - 1985. - New York/N.Y. : United Nations. - 532 S

The momentous changes in the USSR since 1985, which led to the ending of the Cold War in Europe, have provoked new interest in policy and academic circles about the future security order in the Asia-Pacific region. In essence the emerging debate has focused on the prospects for some kind of region-wide, political security dialogue and the promotion of arms control. It is in this debate that the author considers ways in which ideas and assumptions about 'defensiveness', often associated with the broader concept of common security, figure in the regional conversation about future security arrangements and the resolution of regional security problems. (DÜI-Sen)

A region-wide defence build-up underway in the Asia-Pacific throughout the 1980s has continued even though the Cold War has ended, and despite the fact that defence budgets in Europe, in the USSR (now Russia), the USA and most of the third world have declined. The nature and causes of the build-up especially in Northeast and Southeast) are reviewed in this essay. (DÜI-Sen)

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: Great Powers and Their Neighbors -- 2. The U.S.-PRC Relationship: Engagement versus Containment, or Engagement With Containment -- 3. The U.S. Asia-Pacific Security Strategy for the Twenty-First Century -- 4. Japan's Military Cooperation and Alliances in the Asia-Pacific Region: Guidelines for U.S.-Japan Defense Cooperation -- 5. The PRC-Japan Relationship: Heading for a Collision?

JAPANESE OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE (ODA) TOTALED $9.13 BILLION IN 1988, WHICH PUT JAPAN NECK-AND-NECK WITH THE UNITED STATES FOR THE POSITION OF LARGEST DONOR COUNTRY. SINCE JOINING THE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE IN 1961, JAPAN HAS STEADILY INCREASED ITS AID EFFORT UNTIL IT IS NOW ONE OF THE MAJOR SOURCES OF ECONOMIC HELP. THIS ARTICLE OUTLINES THE DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF JAPANESE ODA, SUCH AS ITS EMPHASIS ON LOANS TO ASIA, AND DISCUSSES THE VARIOUS FACTORS THAT HAVE SHAPED THESE CHARACTERISTICS. IN RECOGNITION OF THE FACT THAT YEN CREDITS ARE CENTRAL TO JAPANESE ASSISTANCE, THE SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF YEN CREDITS ARE EXAMINED. FINALLY, SOME RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN JAPANESE ASSISTANCE AND SOME ISSUES THAT REMAIN TO BE RESOLVED ARE REVIEWED.