Understanding regional governance in Asia / Nicholas Thomas -- Evolving regional governance in East Asia: from ASEAN to an East Asian community / Mely Caballero-Anthony -- Japan and regional governance in East Asia: expanding involvement, stagnated influence? / Hidetaka Yoshimatsu -- South Korea...

Central Asia : the end of the transition / Boris Rumer -- Russia and Central Asia : problems of security / Irina Zviagel'skaia -- On the path to empire? / Konstantin Syroezhkin -- China's Central Asia policy : making sense of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization / Richard W. Hu -- Islamic...