Peace building in the Asia Pacific region : perspectives from Japan and Australia

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Peace building in the Asia Pacific region : perspectives from Japan and Australia

edited by Peter King and Yoichi Kibata

Allen & Unwin, 1996

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Canvasses the current requirements of achieving and consolidating peace in the Asia-Pacific region from the perspectives of two "outsiders" in the region, Australia and Japan, who both have a large stake in the success of the process. The book explores the strategic, political, economic and cultural dimensions of peace-building, with special emphasis on APEC and ASEAN, and concludes that Japan's role as active diplomatic innovator, can be fruitfully linked. Japan's enforced strategic passivity and Australia's anxious quest for regional "enmeshment" are both seen as potential assets rather than problems in regional peace-building.

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Acknowledgments and Note on ConventionsContributorsAbbreviationsIntroduction PETER KING1 Japan and Australia: A comparison of their strategies for coexistence with Asia and America WATANABE AKIO2 Towards multilateral initiatives: Can Japan and Australia cope with an emerging Asia Pacific? Kikuchi Tsutomu3 Japan and Australia as anchors: Do the chains still bend? RAWDON DALRYMPLE4 Japanese security policies in the post Cold War era: The Asia Pacific Perspective YAMAMOTO YOSHINOBU5 Australia's stake in Asia Pacific regional security ROBYN LIM6 Japan's cultural exchange approaches in Asia Pacific KEN'ICHIRO HIRANO7 International news and political agendas in the Asia Pacific region: An Australian perspective RODNEY TIFFEN8 State formation and regional order: Southeast Asia in the international environment FUJIWARA KIICHI9 Australia and Southeast Asia: 'Comprehensive engagement' or marriage of convenience PETER KINGSymposiumIndex

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