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.

The 2001 edition of this annual publication considers events that have an important impact on Asia Pacific security: the dramatic summit meeting and other developments on the Korean peninsula; presidential elections in Russia, Taiwan, and the United States; continuing instability in Timor and elsewhere in Indonesia, and tensions in South Asia between India and Pakistan; concerns over new technologies such as missile defense and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and delivery systems; and renewed concerns over energy supplies to the region in light of new violence in the Middle East. The Asia Pacific Security Outlook 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 presents 20 individual country reports - including, for the first time, on Mongolia. Contributing countries are Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, the United States, and Vietnam.

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