Preface / Liz Mohn, Wolfgang Schüssel
Introduction / Malte C. Boecker
I. Asia's potential as a world power. Demographic dynamics of Asia / Carl Haub
Asia's economic and technological outlook / Horst Siebert
Asia, Europe and the global power balance / Paul Kennedy
II. Asia's challenges. Inner-Asian fragilities / Aurel Croissant
Asian mobility and Europe : managing and benefiting from a near inevitability / Demetrios Papademetriou
Is it possible to sustain Asia? / John Elkington, Jodie Thorpe
III. Asia's soft power. Perspectives on the economic and human development of India and China / Amartya Sen
Asia civilization and culture in a globalized world / Karan Singh
The cultural diplomacy of East Asian nations / Kazuo Ogoura
Where is Chinatown? / Eduard Kögel
The future of classical music depends on Asia / Delfín Colomé
Asia and Europe : competition or spritual synthesis? / Michael von Brück
IV. Answers to Asia. Cultural foreign policy : opportunity for Asia and Europe / Hans-Georg Knopp
An open, innovative Europe for a global world / José Manuel Barroso
An equal partnership in the 21st century : Europe's answer to Asia's challenges / Pascal Lamy
Requirements for a European Asian strategy / Werner Weidenfeld.
Asia : changing the world. ISBN 9783892049777. Published by Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.