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The book contains overviews by the prime minister of Thailand and the deputy prime minister of Malaysia. It goes on to deal with such major current issues as rapid urbanization, income inequality, the nuclearization of the family, industrial and trade policies to promote growth, access to Japanese markets, the Kampuchea problem, and the Phillipines crisis, as well as with fundamental questions of ASEAN's integration in the economic sphere and its growing contribution to regional and world political stability.