The Emerging Pacific Community: A Regional Perspective explores both the advantages and disadvantages of the "Pacific Basin Community" advocated by policymakers in the United States and the western Pacific to strengthen economic-and possibly security-ties.

Foreword -- Conference Delegates -- Opening Remarks -- Pacific Community: Further Steps -- Report on the Congressional Study Group -- Audience Comments -- U.S. Interests and the Emerging Pacific Community -- Pacific Community: Desirability, Feasibility, and Specificity -- The Pacific Basin Community: Problems and Prospects -- The Pacific Basin: The Future of a Concept -- Political Designing for Pacific Cooperation -- Discussants -- ASEAN and the Pacific Community: Problems and Prospects -- The Membership Dilemma and What to Do About It: The Non-Market Economy Nations and the Pacific Community -- The Future for France in the Pacific -- Discussants -- Audience Comments -- The Pacific Potential and the Alaskan Factor -- Transition to High Technology Cohesion or Collision Course? -- Development of Trade and Trade Conflicts in the Pacific Basin -- Regional Trade and Investment: Conflict and Cooperation Ahead -- Raw Materials and Their Role in Regional Economic Cooperation -- Discussants -- Chinese Trade Policy Reforms: Domestic Determinants and International Implications -- Trade, Technology Transfers, and Risks of Protectionism: The Experience of the Republic of China -- The Outlook for Cooperation: An ASEAN View -- Discussants -- Audience Comments -- Pacific Trade: The Perils of Economic Nationalism -- Ensuring Regional Stability: Methods and Options -- An Overview of the U.S. Security Position in the Western Pacific -- Threats in the Western Pacific -- The Security of the Western Pacific: The Price of Burden Sharing -- Discussants -- The Future of Hong Kong -- Taiwan's Role in the Pacific Community in Relationship to the Soviet Threat -- Refugee Flows and Other Destabilizing Factors: Recent Trends in Southeast Asia -- Discussants -- Audience Comments -- Regional Defense Imperatives