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Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: The Pacific Economic Cooperation Movement -- 2 INGOs, International Relations, and Diplomacy -- 3 The Institute of Pacific Relations -- 4 The Pacific Trade and Development Conference -- 5 The Pacific Basin Economic Council -- 6 The Pacific Economic Cooperation Council -- 7 The PECC Process in Action -- 8 Conclusion: Asia-Pacific Diplomacy, INGOs, and Regional Economic Cooperation -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Abstract: The argument that we must redefine our conception of security in the late 20th century is challenged here by observing that we are actually rediscovering security as understood amidst the Idealism of the post-World War I period. The contemporary relevance of the nongovernmental Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) is demonstrated, as is its connection to the recently established Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP) and the intergovernmental ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). By examining IPR's origins, objectives, and structures, the multidimensional definition of security invoked in its track two or unofficial diplomatic activities are shown to be strikingly similar to the redefined versions of security now popular in the region and elsewhere. What institutional and theoretical innovations can we see or hope for in CSCAP, a body that could arguably be portrayed as the IPR reincarnated?