Inhalt: D. Spinanger, From Sandlots to the Big League: Some Thoughts on Why East Asia Has Been Winning - F. S. Winter / S. Zirbel, Internationalization and Globalization in the 1990s - S. Koppers, Development Planning in East and Southeast Asian Economies - R. J. Langhammer, Competing for Foreign Direct Investment: The Performance of East and Southeast Asian Countries in the 1980s - A. Kraemer, Industrial Estates in Malaysia. Targets Expressed in the National Development Plans and Their Implementation - A. Klaas / S. Twarog, Deregulation in the Financial Sector in Indonesia 1983-1990 - A. Baum, Capital Market Development in Southeast Asia: Portfolio Investments in Emerging Markets - S. Dingens, Technology as a Growth Determinant: The Special Case of Hong Kong - B. Muscheidt, Aspects of ASEAN's Agriculture, Its Contribution to Growth, and Its Relationship to the European Community - M. Pohl, A Farewell to Isolationism? North Korea's New Strategies - W. Schug, Analysis of the Republic of China's Foreign Trade and Foreign Trade Policy - E. Louven, China's Foreign Economic Relations: Prospects of the Year 2000 - H. C. Rieger, Basic Issues of ASEAN Economic Co-operation - S. Caspary, The Sea of Japan Region: Perspectives of a Regional Cooperation - H. von Boehmer / R. Emschermann, European Integration: Threat or Promise to East and Southeast Asia?