This volume brings together contributions by some of the most distinguished scholars and Policy makers from South Asia, South-East Asia, China and Japan. It presents a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the economic crisis in South East Asia, and also provides fresh insights into the lessons that South Asia can draw from the experience of its Eastern neighbours. The book traces in considerable depth the developments in South Asia and its eastern neighbourhood in the context of the Emerging mega-trends in the international economic order. It brings out clearly the imperative need to Focus on the longterm challenges of Globalization in order to cope with them effectively. The far reaching implications of liberalization, deregulation and privatization in the developing World on the one hand, and the emergence of powerful mega-groupings in the developed world on the other, would have to be addressed squarely both by the South Asian Countries as also their eastern neighbours. The Study highlights the inevitable need for greater cooperation between South Asia and the major countries of South-East Asia. It details some important guidelines for the South Asian countries. Given the geographical proximity and resource endowments of these countries, the excellent suggestions made in the volume deserve series attention. About The Author: Muchkund Dubey is currently President of the Council for Social Development, New Delhi, and Chairman, Asian Development Research Institute, Patna. He is a member of the National Security Council Advisory Board and the National Advisory Committee on International Trade. He is also India's representative on the executive board of UNESCO. A career diplomat, he served as the Foreign Secretary of the Government of India in 1990 and 1991. He is an economist by training. He has written several papers and articles, and has edited External Implications of Communal Revivalism in India; Indian Society Today : Challenges of Equality, Integration and Empowerment; and Subhas Chandra Bose : The Man and His Vision. He has co-authored India Under Seige : The Challenges Within, and is the author of An Unequal Treaty : World Trading Order After GATT. Nancy Jetly is Professor of South Asian Studies and Chairperson of the Centre for South, Central, South-East, Asian and Southwest Pacific Studies, School of International Studies, Jawahar-lal Nehru University. She is co-Convenor, Coalition for Action on South Asian Cooperation (CASAC), an independent public policy network of South Asian opinion and policy makers. She is also editor of the South Asian Survey, a biannual journal. She is the author of India-China Relations, 1947-1977 : A Study of Parliament's Role in the Making of Foreign Policy and Democratization and Regional Cooperation in South Asia.