This survey uses up-to-date methodological apparatus including sophisticated computer modelling techniques to identify the key political, social and economic trends which are likely to shape the East Asian region at the millennium and beyond.

This wide ranging survey uses the latest methodological apparatus including sophisticated computer modelling techniques to identify the key political, social and economic trends which are likely to shape the East Asian region at the millennium and beyond. An international team of experts address a range of critical areas including the following:

Introduction - east Asia policies of the USA and the EU, omni lateralism with Europe in the middle
methodology of 'shaping factors - shaping actors'
general socio-political factors and development, the cultural base in east Asia
Japan at a turning point - political reforms at home - and the 'return to Asia'? the Koreas - interrupted unification euphoria and nuclear brinkmanship, globalisation and domestic structural challenges
China - great power or greater China? ASEAN - politics and economic development
the impact of regional heterogeneity - understanding the forces of tension in east Asia.