Zakaria Haji Ahmad, a political scientist by training is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the HELP University, Kuala Lumpur. He is also the Distinguished Fellow at the Malaysian Armed Forces Defence College (MAFDC).

Brian Bridges is a former Head of the Asia-Pacific Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

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First published in 1992, Pacific Asia in the 1990s explores the main economic and political trends among the Pacific Asian countries in the second half of the 1980s. It suggests where the potential problems lie and where the opportunities are.

Résumé
First published in 1992, Pacific Asia in the 1990s explores the main economic and political trends among the Pacific Asian countries in the second half of the 1980s. It suggests where the potential problems lie and where the opportunities are.

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Preface Introduction 1. The region's economy: patterns of prosperity 2. The security context: region in flux 3. The developmental state: a tentative framework 4. The newly industrializing economies 5. Southeast Asia: unity within diversity 6. China and the socialist states 7. Japan as facilitator 8. Pacific Asia in the 1990s