Before the current international economic crisis, Asian policymakers deferred to their Western counterparts. The enormous blunders since committed by the US and Europe mean deference has been replaced by disquiet. Asia's concern is that the world will soon come to grief if both the US and Europe...

Introduction : The Long Peace, New Areas of Competition, and Opportunities for Cooperation in China-India Relations / Kanti Bajpai, HUANG Jing, and Kishore Mahbubani -- Convergence and Divergence in Development : An Indian Perspective / Prem Shankar Jha -- Towards Greater Financial Cooperation :...

Asia has long been underrepresented in institutions of global governance. Recent challenges to those institutions have focused less on their legitimacy than on their effectiveness. Such engagement reflects a changed approach to sovereignty. Once it was understood primarily as a defense against...