Can Asian think? -- Asia's lost millennium -- West and the rest -- Asian perspective on human rights and freedom of the press -- Pol Pot: the paradox of moral correctness -- Dangers of decadence: what the rest can teach the West -- Rest of the West? -- Japan adrift -- The Pacific impulse -- Seven paradox on Asia-Pacific security -- UN: sunrise of sunset organization in the twenty-first century? -- Bridging the divide: the SIngapore experience -- Ten commandments for developing countries in the nineties