BJVRN HETTNE is Professor at the Department of Peace and Development, Gvteborg University. He is the author of a number of books and articles on development theory, international political economy, European integration and ethnic relations.ANDRAS INOTAI is Director-General of the Institute for World Economics, Budapest. Since February 1996 he has been Head of the Task force for Hungary's EU-integration Strategy; he was also a Staff Member of the World Bank, Washington, DC (1989-1991).OSVALDO SUNKEL is Professor of Economics, at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and Co-ordinator of the Sustainable Development Program, Centro de Anaisis de Polmticas Publicas, Universidad de Chile. He is also special advisor to ECLAC and president of CINDE.

• List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes on the Contributors Foreword; Giovanni Andrea Cornia Editors' Preface The Logic of Regional Security in the Post-Cold War World ; B.Buzan Regional Cooperation and Economic Development; P.Mistry Development and Regional Integration in Latin America: Another Chance for an Unfulfilled Promise?; A.Sunkel The New Regionalism and Collective Diplomacy in Latin America; A.Frohman Africa in the Global Political Economy: Globalization, Regionalization or Marginalization; T.M.Shaw The Role of the Regional Factor in West Africa; F.Söderbaum Israel, Palestine and Jordan - Triangle or Peace or Conflict?; H.Lindholm-Schulz & M.Schulz Regional Hydropolitics in Mainland South East Asia: A New Deal in a New Era; J.Öjendal Power and Water: The Coming Order in Southern Africa; L.A.Swatuk Regional Cooperation and Peace: A Chinese View; S.Ji-ru A Regional Framework for Peace and Development in the Balkans; J.Minic Contents of Volumes 1 - 5 Index