Part 1 Strategies for development - lessons from the Asian experience: East Asia's explosive development - its relevance to theories and strategies, Surendra Patel; interpreting industrial restructuring in Hong Kong - state, market and institutions, Tai-lok Lui and Samuel K. Chiu; state, industrial restructuring and human resource strategies - Thailand and the East Asian NICs, Frederic Deyo; Chinese economic development in the Deng era in historical perspective, Shiping Zhang. Part 2 Asia and the geopolitics of the 1990s: why do nations go nuclear? India as a case study, Mitali Sinha; Canada and the North Pacific - the case of the North Pacific co-operative security dialogue, Allen Chong; legal aspects of a Pacific blockade of Taiwan, John K.T. Chao. Part 3 Implications of emergent regionalism: Japan's perception of NAFTA, Kazuhiko Okudal; China's arms transfers and the implications for nonproliferation, Jing-dong Yuan; building bridges for trade - the economic impact of Ontario-China relations, George MacLean and Kim Richard Nossal; Canada meets the Pacific challenge, Philip Calvert.