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