Asia-Pacific Economic and Security Co-operation: New Regional Agendas

This collection examines developments in economic and security co-operation in the Asia-Pacific in relation to two 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; and the relationship between the Asia-Pacific’s new economic and security bilateralism and regional level forms of co-operation, integration and governance.