Description: 1 Introduction: Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.- I: The Structure of the Asia-Pacific Region.- 2 Australia, the Asia-Pacific and global geopolitical change.- 3 Geopolitical challenges in the Asia-Pacific.- 4 The new regionalism in the Asia-Pacific.- 5 The Asia-Pacific: social and economic structure.- 6 ASEAN: a key Asia-Pacific building block.- 7 Human rights questions in the Asia-Pacific.- 8 Ethnicity, state policy and political stability.- 9 Political boundary issues in the Asia-Pacific.- II: Australia's Regional Linkages.- 10 Economic links: minerals and trade.- 11 Social links: images, invisibles and immigration.- 12 Regional security relations.- 13 Australia's aid front.- 14 Environmental security: the Asia-Pacific and Australia.- 15 The geopolitics of Australia-Japan relations.- 16 Developing the 'fourth front'.- 17 Towards Australasia?.- 18 The new geopolitics, Australia and the Asia-Pacific future.- Appendices.- 1 The Human Development Index.- 2 Population Data.- 3 Economic Data.- 4 Social Development.- 5 Economic Linkages 1990.- 6 Human Rights Instruments 1997.- 7 Australian ODA and Human Development.- 8 Indicators of Environmental Threat.- 9 Environmental Treaties 1998.- 10 States of the Indian Ocean Region.- Useful Web Addresses.

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