Reshaping Regional Relations
Reshaping Regional Relations
Asia-Pacific and the Former Soviet Union
Edited By
Ramesh Thakur and Carlyle A. Thayer
First published 1993 by Westview Press, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Reshaping regional relations: Asia-Pacific and the former Soviet
Union / Ramesh Thakur and Carlyle A. Thayer, eds.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8133-8506-7
1. Former Soviet republicsForeign relationsAsia. 2. Asia
Foreign relationsFormer Soviet republics. I. Thakur, Ramesh
Chandra, 1948 . II. Thayer, Carlyle A.
JX1555.Z5 1993
327.4705dc20 93-3617
CIP
ISBN 13: 978-0-367-28578-4 (hbk)
Contents
, Ramesh Thakur
, Graeme Gill
, Peter Shearman
, Gerald Segal
, Charles E. Ziegler
, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
, Gary Klintworth
, Ramesh Thakur
, William Maley
, Carlyle A. Thayer
, Pushpa Thambipillai
, R.A.Herr and D.J. McDougall
, William T. Tow
Guide
ADB Asian Development Bank
AFTA Asean Free Trade Area
APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
ASEAN Association of South-East Asian Nations
CGDK Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea
CIS Commonwealth of Independent States
CMEA Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union
CSCE Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
EAEC East Asian Economic Caucus
EC European Community
ECO Economic Cooperation Organisation
FEER Far Eastern Economic Review
FPDA Five Power Defence Arrangements
FSU Former Soviet Union
G-7 Group of Seven industrial states
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GNP Gross National Product
IAF Indian Air Force
ICBM Intercontinental ballistic missile
ICO Islamic Conference Organisation
IMF International Monetary Fund
KPNLF Khmer People's National Liberation Front
KPRP Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party
LPRP Lao People's Revolutionary Party
LITE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
MOFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)
MTCR Missile Technology Control Regime
NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
NAM Nonaligned Movement
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NIC Newly industrialising country
NLF National Liberation Front
NPT Non-Proliferation Treaty
NWFZ Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone
OEGD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
PDPA People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
PECC Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference
PLA People's Liberation Army
PRK People's Republic of Kampuchea
SAARC South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation
SCMP South China Morning Post
SEATO South-East Asia Treaty Organisation
SLBM Submarine-launched ballistic missile
START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
SWB Summary of World Broadcasts
TRADP Tumen River Area Development Program
UN United Nations
UNDP United Nations Development Program
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
UNTAC United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia
U.S. United States
USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the former Soviet Union)
ZOPFAN Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality
Graeme Gill is Professor of Government and Public Administration at the University of Sydney. He has written widely on Soviet affairs. His most recent book is The Origins of the Stalinist Political System (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa is Professor in Russian and Soviet History at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His most recent work is a book edited jointly with Alex Pravda, Perestroika: Soviet Domestic and Foreign Policies (London: Sage, 1990). He is now completing a book jointly with Tsuneo Akaha, entitled Soviet/Russo-Japanese Relations in the Perestroika and Post-Perestroika Period.
R.A. Herr is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Tasmania. He is the editor of The Forum Fisheries Agency: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects (Suva: University of the South Pacific, 1990). His recent research centres on the role and legitimacy of non-state actors in South Pacific and Antarctic affairs.
Gary Klintworth is a Senior Research Fellow in the Northeast Asia Program, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. He has worked as a strategic analyst on the Asian-Pacific region for the Department of Defence of the Australian government, in the Australian Consulate-General in Hong Kong, and in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre of the Australian National University. He is currently writing a book entitled Taiwan's Changing Role in Asia-Pacific.
D.J. McDougall is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne. His most recent book is Studies in International Relations: The Asia-Pacific, the Superpowers, Australia (Melbourne: Edward Arnold, 1991). He is currently working on a study of political developments in the French overseas departments during the Mitterrand era.
William Maley is Associate Lecturer in Politics, University College, University of New South Wales. He was a Visiting Professor at the Russian Diplomatic Academy in 1992. Among other works, he has co-authored The Transition from Socialism: State and Civil Society in the USSR (London: Longman, 1991) and Regime Change in Afghanistan: Foreign Intervention and the Politics of Legitimacy (Boulder: Westview, 1991), and co-edited The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
Gerald Segal is a Senior Fellow (Asian Security) at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and editor of The Pacific Review. His publications include The Soviet Union and the Pacific (Boston: Unwin/Hyman for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1990) and Openness and Foreign Policy Reform in Communist States (London: Routledge for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1992).
Peter Shearman is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Melbourne. Author of The Soviet Union and Cuba (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1987), he is currently writing a book entitled International Relations Theory.