Asia-Pacific Economic and Security Co-operation

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.