Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: A Region in Transition -- ASEAN, East Asia and the Pacific Rim: Thoughts on the New Regionalism -- East Asia's Transnational Challenges: The Dark Side of Globalization -- ASEAN Economic Integration: The Challenges Ahead -- ASEAN, Asia, and the Rise of Regional Identity -- Australia's Asian Identity -- Asia Thinks International: One Country's Approach -- Globalization in Asia -- Part II: Changes in Business -- The Rise and Pause of Multinational Corporations in Asia Productivity Growth and the Prospects for Asian Global Dominance -- Riding the Wave: Japanese Corporations in the Twenty-first Century -- Different Shades of "Crony Capitalism": Not All Asian Values Are Alike -- Expropriation and the Asian Corporation -- Lesson Unlearned: Resurgent Asian Exchange Rate Instability -- Is East Asia's Economy Back on Track? -- Towards a Yen Bloc in Asia -- Part III: The High-Tech Sphere -- Taiwan's High-Tech Horizons -- Asian E-Commerce: Waiting for Takeoff -- Part IV: Defense/Security -- Security in the Region: An Asian Perspective Dragons' Dance: The Evolving Security Situation in Northeast Asia -- Part V: Quest for Civil Societies and Political Harmony -- Democracy in the Balance -- Part VI: Ecology, Energy, and Resources -- Dateline 2005: Hong Kong Disappears in a Cloud of Particulate Dust -- China, Energy, the Environment, and Climate Change -- The Greening of East Asia: The Quest to Tackle Environmental Dilemmas -- Asia's Energy Predicament and Its Implications -- Asia's Quest for Water -- Feeding Asia in the Twenty-first Century -- Part VII: People, Society, Culture and the Urban Edge Hong Kong After the Handover: From Elation to Confusion -- Looking Below the Surface: Cultural Subtleties in U.S. and Chinese Negotiations -- Confucianism, Modernity, and Restoration in Contemporary China -- Cross-National Competence and U.S.-Asia Interdependence: The Explosion of Trans-Pacific Civil-Society Networks -- Japan's Socio-Cultural Transformation: The Break-down of the Japanese Dream -- Urbanization in Asia: Prospects for Sustainability -- Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta: The Makings of an Asian World City -- The Asian Media: Internet Emergence and English Language "Comeback Part VIII: Dragons, Tigers and Would-Be Tigers -- Reading Japan's Political-Economic Tea Leaves -- China's Human Resource Riddle -- China: Location of the Next Asian Economic Crisis? -- The Chinese Middle Class and the World Economy -- Korea at a Crossroads -- Taiwan Dependence: Trade and Investment Dimensions of Cross-Strait Politics -- Islam, Politics, and Regime Change in Wahid's Indonesia -- Contributors -- Index
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