Der Sammelband präsentiert die Resultate eines Forschungsprojekts an der Universität Mainz über die Institutionalisierung der wirtschafts- und sicherheitspolitischen Kooperation im asiatisch-pazifischen Raum. Inhalt: Manfred Mols: Asia-Pacific: Why Theory and what Type of it? A View from Political Science (7-38); Carsten Otto: "International Regimes" in the Asia-Pacific? The Case of APEC (39-66); Vinod Aggarwal: Whithering APEC? The Search for an institutional Role (67-86); Jörn Dosch: Asia-Pacific Multilateralism and the Role of the United States (87-110); Frank Umbach: The Future of the U.S.-Japanese Security Alliance (111-154); Kay Möller: ASEAN and the United States: For Want of Alternatives (155-169); Frank Umbach: ASEAN and Major Powers: Japan and China - A Changing Balance of Power? (171-213); Julia Hurtzig / Eberhard Sandschneider: National Interest and Multilateral Cooperation. The PRC and its Policies towards APEC and ARF (215-242); Manfred Mols: In the National Interest: Australian Foreign Policy at the Turn of the Century (243-258).