Previously published: Toronto : Key Porter Books, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Can Asians think? -- Asia's lost millennium -- Asian values -- The West and the rest -- An Asian perspective on human rights and freedom of the press -- Pol Pot : the paradox of moral correctness -- The dangers of decadence : what the rest can teach the West -- The rest of the West? -- The Asia-Pacific -- Japan adrift -- "The Pacific Impulse" -- Seven paradoxes on Asia-Pacific security -- Global concerns -- UN : sunrise or sunset organization in the twenty-first century? -- Bridging the divide : the Singapore experience -- The ten commandments for developing countries in the nineties.
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Poses questions about the relationship between Eastern and Western cultures, the future of Asian societies, and the effects of globalization.