Asia Pacific Security Outlook 1997-2001

This collection on CD-ROM of five years of Asia Pacific Security Outlook (APSO) offers readers a new format for reviewing and researching the salient security issues in the region at the closing of the century's last decade.

The five original editions of APSO are reproduced in toto, and each of the twenty countries surveyed is newly grouped in five-, three-, two-, or one-year collections (depending on the timing of their inclusion in the series)for twenty-five books in all.

The five-year collection for Malaysia includes the 2000 report on that country, which is not contained in the printed version. " Live" indexes for the 1999, 2000, and 2001 editions permit instant access to pages cited in index entries in the printed books.

A " mega-index" database allows readers to search the complete text of all twenty-five books quickly and easily.

The Windows/Macintosh hybrid CD-ROM includes Adobe" Acrobat" Reader software for both platforms.

The APSO series monitors changing perceptions of national security environments, key defense issues, and national contributions to regional and global security.

A multinational team of security experts writes country chapters on member countries of the ASEAN Regional Forum (twenty of the twenty-three members are covered): Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, the United States, and Vietnam.