MICHAEL WESLEY is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is author of Casualties of the New World Order: The Causes of Failure of UN Missions to Civil Wars.

• Notes on the Contributors Glossary Introduction; M.Wesley PART I: THE ORGANIZATIONS The Asian Development Bank; M.Wesley The Association of Southeast Asian Nations: Challenges and Responses; M.C.Abad, Jr Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation: Institutional Evolution and the Factors Driving Ongoing Change; C.Heseltine The ASEAN Regional Forum; A.Fukushima PART II: PERSPECTIVES IN INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE Membership Expansion and Change; M.Wesley The Nature of Change; M.Wesley The Conditions of Change; J.Shannon The Dynamics of Change; S.Bates The Direction of Change; M.Wesley Drivers and Resisters of Change; F.M.Macaranas Conclusion; M.Wesley Index