Introductory Remarks / Jorn Dosch and Manfred Mols -- Asia-Pacific: Why Theory and what Type of it? A View from Political Science / Manfred Mols -- "International Regimes" in the Asia-Pacific? The Case of APEC / Carsten Otto -- Withering APEC? The Search for an institutional role / Vinod Aggarwal -- Asia-Pacific Multilateralism and the Role of the United States / Jorn Dosch -- The Future of the U.S.-Japanese Security Alliance / Frank Umbach -- ASEAN and the United States: For Want of Alternatives / Kay Moller -- ASEAN and Major Powers: Japan and China - A Changing Balance of Power? / Frank Umbach -- National Interest and Multilateral Cooperation: The PRC and its Policies towards APEC and ARF / Julia Hurlzig and Eberhard Sandschneider -- In the National Interest: Australian Foreign Policy at the Turn of the Century / Manfred Mols