This survey uses up-to-date methodological apparatus including sophisticated computer modelling techniques to identify the key political, social and economic trends which are likely to shape the East Asian region at the millennium and beyond. An international team of experts address a range of critical areas including the following: strategy and the role of the west; east Asia and the information society; Japan at the turning point and the "return to Asia"; North and South Korea - unification and brinkmanship; China - power and greater China; and ASEAN and development.

This survey uses up-to-date methodological apparatus including sophisticated computer modelling techniques to identify the key political, social and economic trends which are likely to shape the East Asian region at the millennium and beyond. An international team of experts address a range of critical areas including the following: strategy and the role of the west; east Asia and the information society; Japan at the turning point and the "return to Asia"; North and South Korea - unification and brinkmanship; China - power and greater China; and ASEAN and development.