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This book is intended to provide a critical assessment of the role of Trace 2 diplomacy in the Asia Pacific region, and, more specifically, of CSCAP. It describes CSCAP's formation and development, reviewing its principal activities since its establishment, particularly with respect to its relationship with the ASEAN Regional Form (ARF), its declared Track 1 counterpart. It also identifies and analyses perceived weaknesses in CSCAP's organisation and failures in its processes, some of which derive from its fundamental connections with official (governmental) agencies constituting Track 1. The main body of the book is prospective, providing analyses of current and projected development with respect to the evolving regional architectures, the increasingly "crowded" institutional landscape, the place of ASEAN and the ARF in contending architectures, the role of Track 2, and the increasing challenges of non-traditional security issues. This sets the context for the assessment of CSCAP's prospects for its next couple of decades.

Published by the S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore and the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australia. Email: idss@ntu.edu.sg

This volume contains revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the Council for Security Corporation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP) Study Group Meetings on Maritime Security Cooperation held in Kunming, China in December 2004 and in New Delhi, India in April 2005. The views expressed in this book are remarkable for their consistency of common purpose even though their authors come from an eclectic and diverse mix of backgrounds and nationalities. It is a curious phenomenon that these academics, officials, mariners, lawyers and policymakers expressing their own views, and not necessarily reflecting their own government's policies, from countries throughout the Indo-Pacific have similar ambitions to build capacity and maritime awareness and thus enhance good order at sea. there is recognition, expressly stated in some cases but implied in others, of the good that can flow from cooperative approaches. Policymakers should thus take comfort and be reassured that there is a wide body of supportive and informed opinion to build capacity and awareness of the maritime domain throughout the region.

This volume contains revised versions of selected papers presented at the Council for Security Corporation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP) Study Group Conference titled Engaging Oceania with Pacific Asia held in Wellington, New Zealand on 24-25 August 2004. Several scholars, distinguished academics and other eminent individuals from within Oceania joined with their colleagues from a number of regional CSCAP National Councils to deliberate about tackling inter-regional security problems. It was mainly an opening dialogue in engaging scholars to debate the connecting of Oceania with Pacific Asia into a wider security context. The chapters of this book therefore provide a stimulus for further debate and policy development about the prospects for security in Oceania and linkages with Pacific Asia.

This monograph contains a reflection of the proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the CSCAP Comprehensive and Cooperative Security Working Group held in February 2002 which was conducted in the traditional vein of Track Two frankness and candour. The papers reflect the individual opinions of the authors, and provide useful insight into country-specific experiences, and management, of terrorism, as well as contributions to the international campaign against terrorism. Tabled at a time when attacks, both terrorist and military, were very much in the foreground, it is hoped that this collection of papers will serve as a benchmark for reference from whence the struggle against terrorism will continually progress and mature.

Published and distrbuted by the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia on behalf of CSCAP.

This volume brings together the papers presented at the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP) Working Group on Comprehensive and Cooperative Security that held its seventh meeting in Seoul, South Korea, on 1-2 December 1999. The meeting involved thirty-four participants representing member committees from East and Southeast Asia, Australasia, North America, and Europe. It was the largest meeting to date of this Working Group and was timely in view of Kosovo and East Timor. The papers from the meeting presented here discuss the principle of non-intervention as a fundamental basis for inter-state relations.

This monograph provides a critical review of CSCAP's achievements since 1992-93. It describes the activities of the CSCAP Working Groups, and the relationship between CSCAP and the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). It addresses several issues which are of crucial importance to the future of CSCAP, including the future of its Working Groups, the role of the Steering Committee, the relations with offcialdom in the member countries, and tensions within the basic charter and objectives of the organisation. it also discusses CSCAP's research agenda, and identifies new subjects for study, including arms control, defence cooperation, the environment and security, and the concept of human security. Finally, it provides an assessment of CSCAP's prospects.

Published as part of the Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence series, No.139, and available from the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

This volume brings together papers from the fifth and sixth meetings of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP) Working Group on Comprehensive and Cooperative Security. The fifth meeting was held in Wellington on 14-15 July 1998 and was chaired by New Zealand in cooperation with the Working Group Co-Chairs from Malaysia and China. The sixth meeting was held in Beijing on 24-26 May 1999 and was co-chaired by New Zealand and China. The topic of the two meetings was the Asian Economic Crisis and its implications for the regional security structure. The majority of the papers presented here address this theme. The other topics covered, from Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests to Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) for regional land borders, remind us that the economic crisis is not the only pertinent regional security issue. These papers are a timely contribution to the literature available on the economic crisis, particularly its effects on security, and how the crisis might be viewed in the context of regional security.

This book is a third in a series that reproduces papers presented at Meetings of the Comprehensive and Cooperative Security Working Group. The 3rd Comprehensive Security Meeting of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP) was organised by the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand (CSS:NZ) and held in Wellington, New Zealand in December 1996.

The Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP) held its first Working Group meeting on Comprehensive and Cooperative Security in Wellington, New Zealand in 1995. Papers discussing and analysing concepts of comprehensive security and their relevance for the region were read. These papers are presented in an edited form in this book. The papers show the wide range and diversity of the debate and methods of analysis of the concepts of security.

This book is a compilation of papers presented at the 2nd meeting of the CSCAP Working Group on the Concepts of Comprehensive and Cooperative Security. It was generally agreed that this meeting advanced the discussion on the meaning of comprehensive and cooperative security, the outlines of an organising concept for management of security in the Asia Pacific region and the institutional arrangements for implementing comprehensive security in the region. Theapplicaiton and practice of comprehensive security in selected security contexts, namely migration, ethnic conflicts and territorial disputes in the South China Sea were also examined.

Published by ISIS Malaysia. Email: info@isis.org.my