This collection examines new developments in economic and security co-operation in the Asia-Pacific in relation to two recent 'shock' events that have significantly impacted upon the region, these being the 1997/98 East Asian financial crisis and the September 11 attacks on the United States. These are examined through three 'prime dimensions' of analysis, namely: the tension between the 'post-shock' forces of 'imperative co-operation' and the counter-forces of Asia-Pacific 'complex diversity'; the growing conflation between economic and security issues - or the 'economics-security nexus' - in Asia-Pacific international relations; the relationship between the Asia-Pacific's new economic and security bilateralism and regional-level forms of co-operation, integration and governance.

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ALAN COLLINS Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Wales, Swansea XIUDIAN DAI Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Hull, UK JÖRN DOSCH Lecturer in Asia-Pacific Studies, University of Leeds, UK ERIC GROVE Senior Lecturer in Security Studies, University of Hull, UK JÜRGEN HAACKE Lecturer in the International Relations of East Asia, University of Birmingham, UK CHRISTOPHER HUGHES Research Fellow, CSGR, University of Warwick ANJA JETSCHKE Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany SIMON LEE Lecturer in Politics, University of Hull, UK REX LI Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Liverpool John Moores University, UK NEIL RENWICK Reader in International and East Asian Studies, Nottingham Trent University, UK JÜRGEN RÜLAND Professor of Political Science, University of Freiburg, Germany

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PART I: INTRODUCTION New Economic and Security Co-operation in the Asia- Pacific: An Introduction; C.M.Dent PART II: GLOBAL CONTEXTS Asia-Pacific Economic Regionalism: Global Constraints and Opportunities; S.Lee Globalization and Security in East Asia; C.Hughes PART III: REGIONAL OVERVIEWS Asian Regionalism Five Years after the 1997/98 Financial Crisis: A Case of 'Co-operative Realism'?; J.Rüland The Asia-Pacific's New Economic Bilateralism and Regional Political Economy; C.M.Dent Sea Power in the Asia-Pacific at the Turn of the Millennium; E.Grove PART IV: SUB-REGIONAL STUDIES The War on Terror: Implications for the ASEAN Region; J.Haacke ASEAN: Challenged from Within and Without; A.Collins Sub-Regional co-operation in the Mekong Valley: Implications for Regional Security; J.Dosch Democratization: A Threat to Peace and Stability in Southeast Asia?; A.Jetschke Changing China-Taiwan Relations and Asia-Pacific Regionalism: Economic Co-operation and Security Challenge; R.Li PART V: CYBER PERSPECTIVES Global Economic Change and Cyber-Networks: East Asia's Economic Security Threat in Perspective; N.Renwick Regionalism Online: a Case of e-ASEAN; X.Dai PART VI: CONCLUSION Prime Dimensions of the New Economic and Security Co-operation in the Asia- Pacific: A Conclusion; C.M.Dent