Offers a combination of maps, diagrams, documents and statistical data covering every state around and within the Pacific. Key features include: a broad definition of the "Asia-Pacific" covering, North-East and South-East Asia, and North, Central and Southern America, the Pacific Island states and Australasia; maps showing flows of labour, trade, investment, tourists and telecommunications empires, wars, colonial struggles and environmental degradation; surveys of historical developments and contemporary political issues facing all countries bordering on the Pacific; over 600 diagrams depicting key demographic, economic and social changes since 1970 with appendices showing the actual data used and their sources; and key documents that have shaped the Asia-Pacific including, founding charters of contemporary organizations, treaties, declarations and social rights movements documents.