INTL 440/540: The Pacific Challenge
Fall, 1997
Gerry Fry


Some Key Reference Books:



Asia and Pacific Review, (Essex, England: World of Information), published annually.

Asia Yearbook (Hong Kong: Far Eastern Economic Review), annual.

Asian Development Outlook (Manila: Asian Development Bank), annual

Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific (New York: ESCAP), annual

The Far East and Australasia (London: Europa), annual.

Southeast Asian Affairs (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies), annual.


Asia/Pacific Region Bibliography



Ableggen, James C. Sea Change: Pacific Asia as the New World Industrial Center (New York: Free Press, 1994).

Alagappa, Muthiah (ed.) Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995).

Amara Pongsapich, et al. (eds) Regional Development and Change in Southeast Asia (Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute, 1992).

Amara Srisuchat (ed.) Ancient Trades and Cultural Contacts in Southeast Asia (Bangkok: The Office of the National Cultural Commission, 1996).

ASEAN: The First 20 Years. Singapore: Federal Publications, 1987.

Balk, Alfred, (ed). "Special Report: Asiapower," IEEE Spectrum, June, 1991.

Bello, Walden and Stepanie Rosenfeld. Dragons in Distress: Asia's Miracle Economies in Crisis (San Francisco: Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1992).

Berger, Mark T. and Douglas A. Borer (eds.) The Rise of East Asia: Critical Visions of the Pacific Century (London: Routledge, 1997).

Bergsten, C. Fred and Marcus Noland (eds.) Pacific Dynamism and the International Economic System (Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1993).

Besher, Alexander. The Pacific Rim Almanac (New York: HarperPerrenial, 1991).

Blair, Lawrence with Lorne Blair, Ring of Fire (New York: Bantam Books, 1988).

Bonacich, Edna, et al. (eds.) Global Production: The Apparel Industry in the Pacific Rim (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994).

Borthwick, Mark, et al. Pacific Century: the Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992).

Bresnan, John . From Dominoes to Dynamos: The Transformation of Southeast Asia (New York: 1994).

Brown, David. The State and Ethnic Politics in South-east Asia (London: Routledge, 1994).

Brown, Frederick Z. Second Chance: The United States and Indochina in the 1990s (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1989).

Calder, Kent E. Pacific Defense: Arms, Energy, and America's Future in Asia (N.Y.: William Morrow, 1996).

Campos, Jose E. and Hilton L. Root. The Key to the Asian Miracle: Making Shared Growth Credible (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Foundation, 1996).

Chan, Stephen. East Asian Dynamism: Growth, Order, and Security in the Pacific Region (Boulder: Westview Press, 1990).

Chowdhury, Anis and Iyanatul Islam. The Newly Industrializing Economies of East Asia (London: Routledge, 1993).

Clark, Cal and Steve Chan (eds.) The Evolving Pacific Basin in the Global Political Economy (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1992).

Cotterell, Arthur. East Asia: From Chinese Predominance to the Rise of the Pacific Rim (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).

Devan, Janadas. Southeast Asia: Challenges of the 21st Century (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1994).

Dirlik, Arif (ed). What Is In a Rim? Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Rim Idea (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993).

Fenton, Thomas P. and Mary J. Heffron. Asia and Pacific: A Directory of Resources (London: Zed, 1986).

Forbes, Dean. Asian Metropolis: Urbanization and the Southeast Asian City (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).

Foundation for Advanced Information and Research, Japan. Interim Report of Asia-Pacific Economic Research (Singapore: Look Japan Publishing, 1989).

Fry, Gerald and Rufino Mauricio. Pacific Basin and Oceania (Oxford: Clio Press, 1986).

Funabashi, Yoichi. Asia Pacific Fusion: Japan's Role in APEC (Washington, D.C.: Insitute for International Economics, 1995).

Gibney, Frank. The Pacific Century: America and Asia in a Changing World (N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992).

Goody, Jack. The East in the West (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Hamilton, Gary (ed). Business Networks and Economic Development in East and Southeast Asia (Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 1991).

Hofheinze, Roy and Kent Calder. The Eastasia Edge (New York: Basic Books, 1982).

Houston, James D. In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey (San Francisco: Mercury House, 1997).

Hsiung, James C. Asia Pacific in the New World Politics (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1993).

Jones, Eric, et al. Coming Full Circle: An Economic History of the Pacific Rim (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993).

Kojima, Kiyoshi. Japan and a Pacific Free Trade Area (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971).

Kojima, Kiyoshi (ed.) Pacific Trade and Development (Tokyo: Japan Economic Research Center, 1968).

Kotkin, Joel and Yoriko Kishimoto. The Third Century: America's Resurgence in the Asian Era (New York: Ivy Books, 1988).

Kovalenko, I.I. (ed.) The Pacific Community: An Outlook (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1988) [translated from the Russian]

Lach, Donald F. Asia in the Eyes of Europe: Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Chicago: The University of Chicago Library, 1991).

Lai, Francis F.W. (ed.) The Emerging Relations between China & Southeast Asia (Hong Kong: Centre for Asian Pacific Studies, 1988).

Leifer, Michael. Dictionary of the Modern Politics of South-East Asia (London: Routledge, 1995).

Linder, Staffan B. The Pacfic Century: Economic and Political Consequences of Asian-Pacific Dynamism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986).

Longmore, R.A. Soviet Relations with South-East Asia: An Historical Survey (London: Kegan Paul International, 1989).

McCord, William. The Dawn of the Pacific Century: Implications for Three Worlds of Development (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1993).

Mack, Andrew and John Ravenhill (eds.) Pacific Cooperation: Building Economic and Security Regimes in the Asia-Pacific Region (St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1994).

Mahathir Mohamad and Shintaro Ishihara. The Voice of Asia: Two Leaders Discuss the Coming Century (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1995).

Marshall, Jonathan. To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).

Morley, James W. (ed.) The Pacific Basin: New Challenges for the United States (New York: The Academy of Political Science, 1986).

Naisbitt, John. Megatrends in Asia: The Eight Asian Megatrends (London: Nicholas Realy Publishing, 1995).

Naya, Seiji Finch and Joseph L.H. Tan (eds.) Asian Transitional Economies: Challenges and Prospects for Reform and Tranformation (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1995).

Neher, Clark D. Southeast Asia in the New Internatonal Era (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994), 2nd ed.

The Newly Industrializing Economies of Asia: Prospects of Co-operation (Berlin: Spring-Verlag, 1990).

Orrego Vicuna, Francisco. The Pacific Community: Pespectives of Developing Countries (Santiago: Institute of International Studies, University of Chile, 1983).

__________. La Comunidad del Pacifico en la perspective de los recursos oceanicos (Santiago,: Instituto de Estudios Internationales, Universidad de Chile, 1983).

Orru, Marco, et al. The Economic Organization of East Asian Captialism (Beverley Hills, Ca: Sage Publications, 1997).

Osborne, Milton. Southeast Asia: An Introductory History (St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1995), 6th ed.

Rahm, Syed A. and Anthony J. Pennings. Computerization and Development in Southeast Asia: AStudy of Five ASEAN Countries (Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre, 1987).

Reid, Anthony. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993).

________ (ed.). Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era: Trade, Power, and Belief (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993).

_________. Sojourners and Settlers: Histories of Southeast Asia and the Chinese: in Honour of Jennifer Cushman (St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1996).

Robison, Richard and David S.G. Goodman (eds.), The New Rich in Asia: Mobile Phones, McDonalds and Middle Class Revolution (London: Routledge, 1996).

Rohwer, Jim. Asia Rising (New York: Simon & Shuster, 1995).

Rozman, Gilbert (ed.) The East Asia Region: Confucian Heritage and Its Modern Application (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991).

Sar Desai, D.R. Southeast Asia: Past and Present (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1997), 4th ed.

Shibusawa, Masahide, et al. Pacific Asia in the 1990s (London: The Royal Institute of International Affairs and Routledge, 1992).

Shirk, Susan L. Chinese Views on Asia-Pacific Regional Security Cooperation (Seattle, WA: National Bureau of Asian Research, 1994).

Shirk, Susan L. and Christopher P. Twomey (eds.) Power and Prosperity: Economics and Security Linkages in Asia-Pacific (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1996).

Siegel, David M. Fetish, Recognition, Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997).

Soon, Lau Teik and Leo Suyadinata. Moving Into the Pacific Century: The Changing Regional Order in the Asia-Pacific (Singapore: Heinemann Asia, 1988).

Steinberg, David J., ed. In Search of Southeast Asia: A Modern History (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987).

Sulak Sivaraksa, et al. (eds.) Searching for Asian Cultural Integrity (Bangkok: Santi Pracha Dhamma Institute, 1991).

Thompson, William I. Pacific Shift (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1985).

Troud, Russell and Deborah McNamara (eds.), The Asia-Australia Survey 1994 (Melbourne: Macmillan Education Australia, 1994).

Vatikiotis, Michael R.J. Political Change in Southeast Asia: Trimming the Banyan Tree (London: Routledge, 1996).

Viviano, Frank. Dispatches from the Pacific Century (Reading, Ma: Addison Wesley, 1993).

Wallach, Bret, Losing Asia: Modernization and the Culture of Development (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).

Weidenbaum, Murray and Samuel Hughes, The Bamboo Network: How Expatriate Chinese Entrepreneurs are Creating a New Economic Superpower in Asia (N.Y.: Martin Kessler Books, 1996).

Wurfel, David and Bruce Burton (eds.). Southeast Asia in the New World Order (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996).

Whitlam, E. Gough. A Pacific Community (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Yoshihara, Kunio. The Rise of Ersatz Capitalism in South-East Asia (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).


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