I will assume a reader's familiarity with the first two panels of this ongoing discussion of a book by Barry Buzan and Ole Waever. With our authors, we turn now to the east of Asia, the Pacific rim. Looking with the eyes of these scholars affiliated respectively with the London School of Economics and the University of Copenhagen, let us start with this quote. [p. 145.] "After the east Asian economic crisis in 1997, the succession crisis facing Indonesia became critical, and at the time of writing it was far from clear whether the muddled shift to electoral politics would be able to handle the turbulent mix of economic disaster, secession, (East Timor, Aceh, Irian Jaya) and recurrent bouts of communal violence in various places. Indonesia had all the appearance of a crumbling empire, and its internal disarray and weak leadership contributed to the paralysis of ASEAN, which was already burdened by both over-ambitious expansion and the impact of the regional economic crisis....