Book reviews

• Published in: Australian journal of international affairs 1997, Vol.51 (2), p.275-299
• Main Authors: Chalk, Peter, Miller, Robert F., Findlay, Trevor, Dupont, Alan, Bergin, Anthony, Akbarzadeh, Shahram, Bostock, William W., Claxton, Karl G.W., Austin, Greg, Suyama, Nobuaki, Rose, James J., Byrne, Jessie, Liew, Leong, Crouch, Harold, Hall, Robert A., Smith, Hugh, Rowley, Kelvin
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• ISSN: 1035-7718; 1465-332X
• DOI: 10.1080/10357719708445217

William M. Carpenter and David G. Wiencek (eds), Asian Security Handbook: An Assessment of Political-Security Issues in the Asia-Pacific Region. New York: M.E. Sharpe Inc., 1996. xv + 301 pp. $US68.95 (cloth), $US27.95 (paper). David S. Mason, Revolution and Transition in East-Central Europe. Second Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. xiv + 242 pp. $US52.00 (cloth), $US 14.95 (paper). Desmond Ball (ed.), The Transformation of Security in the Asia/Pacific Region. London: Frank Cass, 1996. 244 pp. £30.00 (cloth), £15.00 (paper). M. Jane Davis (ed.), Security Issues in the Post-Cold War World. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1996. ix + 248 pp. £45.00 (cloth). Sam Bateman and Stephen Bates (eds), Calming the Waters: Initiatives for Asia Pacific Maritime Cooperation. Canberra: Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 114, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 1996. xxii + 207 pp. $23.00 (paper). Sam Bateman and Stephen Bates (eds), The Seas Unite: Maritime Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region. Canberra: Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 118, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 1996. xxx + 303 pp. $25.00 (paper). Anthony Hyman, Political Change in Post-Soviet Central Asia. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1994. 52 pp. £9.50 (paper). Steven Philip Kramer and Irene Kyriakopoulos, Trouble in Paradise? Europe in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: McNair Paper 49, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, 1996. v + 71 pp. No price given. Yaw Saffu (ed.), The 1992 PNG Election-Change and Continuity in Electoral Politics. Canberra: Department of Political and Social Change Monograph No. 23, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1996. xii + 409 pp. $30.00 (paper). Roger Bell, Tim McDonald and Alan Tidwell (eds), Negotiating the Pacific Century-The 'New' Asia, the United States and Australia. St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin in association with The Australian Centre for American Studies, 1996. xi + 324 pp. $29.95 (paper). Anthony Milner and Mary Quilty (eds), Australia in Asia: Communities of Thought. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. xi + 212pp. $24.95 (paper). Colin Mackerras (ed.), Australia and China: Partners in Asia. South Melbourne: Macmillan Education Australia, 1996. xi + 217 pp. $32.95 (paper). Peter Maass, Love Thy Neighbour: A Story of War. Papermac, 1996. 305 pp. $24.95 (paper). United