1. See Paul Dibb and Peter Prince, Asia’s Insecurity (forthcoming).
2. BIS Shrapnel, Asia-Pacific Outlook for 1999-2000, cited in The Canberra Times, 16 February 1999, p13.
3. See Henry Kissinger’s harsh criticism of the Clinton Administration’s decision to earmark 4,000 troops for possible deployment in a NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo (The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 February 1999), p.15.
4. See, for example, Kent E. Calder, Asia’s Deadly Triangle (London: Nicholas Brealey, 1996) and M.S. Dobbs-Higginson, Asia Pacific: Its Role in the New World Disorder (Melbourne: Heinemann, 1993).
5. Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), p.28.
6. For a more detailed analysis of the security implications of Asia’s economic crisis see Paul Dibb, David Hale and Peter Prince, ‘The Strategic Implications of Asia’s Economic Crisis’, Survival, Summer 1998, Vol.40, No.2, pp.5-26.
7. This is contrary to the views of many academic commentators, who during the period of Asia’s economic ‘miracle’ waxed lyrical about the success of economic interdependence and the role of multilateral institutions in underpinning regional stability.
8. The head of the IMF was seen, in this context, to arrogate to himself the role of a head of state, not that of a CEO of an internatioal organisation.