Alan Dupont argues that new non-military threats have the potential to destabilise East Asia.

1. Transnational issues and security; Part I. Environmental Scarcity: 2. Population and conflict; 3. Deforestation, pollution and climate change; 4. Will there be an 'energy gap?'; 5. 'Is a food crisis likely'?; 6. 'Water wars'; Part II. Unregulated Population Movements: 7. Unregulated population movements, ethnic conflict and environmental refugees; 8. The state, people-smuggling and undocumented labour migration; Part III. Crime and AIDS: 9. Transnational organised crime; 10. Drug-trafficking - an emerging threat; 11. The AIDS 'Pandemic'.