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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Chapter One: A Region in Flux -- The Evolving Asian Order -- The Return of Geopolitics -- Strategic Interregnum -- A Region of Sub-Regions -- Chapter Two: Disputes and Tensions in Northeast Asia -- The Taiwan Flashpoint -- The Korean Peninsula -- The East China Sea -- Other Disputes and Tensions -- From Defence Modernisation to Arms Racing -- The Emerging Naval Arms Race -- Nuclear Weapons and Missile Developments -- Action-Reaction in the Cyber Domain -- Chapter Three: Strategic Outlooks and Languishing Institutions in Southeast Asia -- Tensions Within Southeast Asia -- Between the US and China -- Other Regional Powers -- Defence Priorities -- Defence Spending -- Major Weapons Acquisitions -- Chapter Four: Geopolitical Evolution in South Asia -- The Shadow of Afghanistan -- Changing Terms of the India-Pakistan Conflict -- India and China: Eroding Tranquility -- Nuclear Calculus -- The Return of Great-Power Rivalry -- Regional Asymmetries -- Chapter Five: Prospects for Asian Order -- Geopolitical Futures -- Which Vision? -- Maintaining Peace -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

Papers presented at the seminar; chiefly with reference to countries of South Asia; includes some papers on the countries of Southeast Asia

Adler, A. ; Yokote, S.: The strategic significance of changes in the Soviet Union. S. 11-39. Carle, C. ; Shinyo, T.: Regional proliferation and arms control. S. 41-83. Defarges, P. M. ; Tomoda, S.: The non-military aspects of security. S. 85-135. David, D. ; Tetsuya, U.: The national defence strategies of France and Japan. S. 137-172

The author attempts to characterize the public-power institutions of the Manchu-Mongol peoples after the collapse of the Qing Empire, reflected in little-known academic Russian-speaking emigrant sources of the first half of the twentieth century. The revolutionary events in China in 1911-1912 and the abdication of the infant emperor from the throne gave rise to the problem of the legitimacy of the new central government. Not solved from the point of view of law, it led the country to the actual disintegration of the country and the formation of new nation-states. China itself in 1912 It became a republic, and a struggle for the formation of two regional orders unfolded on its borders: between Russia, imperial, and then Soviet, and Japan. The regional order in the zone of Russian interests was based on the statehood of Khalkha-Mongolia, the northernmost part of the Mongolian world, which at the end of 1911 chose the path of the theocratic monarchy, to which Barga tried to join in 1912-1915. The regional order in the zone of Japanese interests has always been associated with Manchuria, which declared independence as Manchukuo with the invasion of the Japanese on the continent. Inner Mongolia also falls into its orbit, forcibly divided into 3 special regions in 1914, and later, with the help of the Japanese, declared sovereignty as the state of Mengjiang. The institutions of public power built up in these policies are characterized by an attempt to restore ancient state traditions, but the key tools in the formation of order and in the change of statuses are the statehood accumulated by these peoples and demonstrating the "ability" to have state sovereignty and international recognition, as well as autonomy, which in some cases was the starting point when falling away from the former empire, and in others - the final one while remaining part of republican China.

In his article, the author, relying on the works of Russian researchers of the East Asian region, attempts to characterize the public-power institutions of the Manchurian-Mongolian peoples in the early twentieth century. Remaining in the shadow of China, these peoples have accumulated considerable experience of statehood, which in different historical epochs allowed them to create powerful powers that conquer each other and neighboring countries. However, at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, power relations were exposed to some factors, as a result of which the political landscape of the region changed significantly. Among these, the author, first of all, highlights the Chinese colonization carried out in relation to the ancestral Mongolian lands when it was impossible to resist this on the part of the Qing emperors, who were once guarantors of their inviolability. Chinese administrative-territorial units with central subordination are created on the territories of ancestral principalities, and the vymorochnye possessions are transferred under the direct control of the provincial administration. Manchuria, as an ancient patrimony of the ruling imperial house, also turns out to be divided into three provinces, and the same fate awaits Inner and Outer Mongolia. Traditional military institutions, having proved their ineffectiveness in the fight against the Europeans and the Japanese, are being disbanded, and new formations are being created in the national regions of "Outer China", designed to protect the border from a possible attack, and to keep dependent territories subordinate to the central authorities. Trying to follow the spirit of the times and, at the same time, solving the defense problem, plans are being hatched for grandiose railway construction in the studied space. However , it began in the autumn of 1911 the Xinhai Revolution led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the actual rupture of the personal alliances that held the national regions of the North of the Qing Empire in unity with the metropolis. Thus, the problem of the legitimacy of the central government of republican China in the eyes of the Manchurian-Mongolian peoples was generated, which led the country to the actual disintegration and formation of new national states in the Manchurian-Mongolian historical and cultural space.

Assessing APEC's progress: trade, ecotech & institutions (A project of the APEC international assessment network (APIAN)) -- Contents -- The Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Learning from experience: the first apian policy report -- 2. IAP commitments in services by Chen-Sheng Ho -- 3. APEC's commitments on investment by Myrna S. Austria -- 4. Competition policy and regulatory reform by Merit E. Janow -- 5. Mobility of business people in APEC by Leonardo A. Lanzona -- 6. Human resource development in APEC by Jianren Lu and Glen Taylor -- 7. The APEC food system in 2000: a case study by Robert Scollay -- 8. APEC's goals in industrial science and technology by Neantro Saavedra-Rivano -- 9. Energy development in APEC by John Mckay -- 10. Development of economic infrastructure by John Mckay -- 11. The reform of corporate governance after the ASIAN economic crisis by John Mckay -- 12. Financial stability in the APEC region by Michael G. Plummer -- 13. APEC as an institution by Vinod K. Aggarwal and Kun-Chin Lin -- Glossary -- Index.

En Asia Central en general y específicamente en las Repúblicas Centrales Asiáticas, el Islam ha entrado en el escenario político e ideológico como un importante actor en los desarrollos regionales de la última década. Desde la década del 80 afloraron sentimientos religiosos descritos como renacimiento islámico que en realidad son parte de un proceso de re-islamización de la sociedad. La confusión conceptual referida a los talibán y Al-Qaeda parece haber quedado atrás a partir de S-11. Sin embargo poco se ha hablado de otras organizaciones con gran militancia en la región y cuyo accionar puede trascender los límites de la misma. ; In Central Asia Republics, the Islam has appeared on the political and ideological scene as an important actor in the region's last decade developments. Since the 80's, religious feelings such as Islamic Renaissance have been arising. The confusion in relation to "Taliban" and "Al Qaeda" notions seem to have been left behind after S-11. Nevertheless, little has been said about other organizations with important military presence in the region that could trespass its limits. ; Instituto de Relaciones Internacionales (IRI)