TY - BOOK AU - SHINN James (ed.) TI - Fires across the water: transnational problems in Asia SN - 0876092059 (pbk.): PY - 1998/// CY - New York PB - Council on Foreign Relations KW - ASIA KW - ECONOMIC CONDITIONS KW - FOREIGN RELATIONS KW - SOCIAL CONDITIONS N2 - Argues that Asia's transnational problems are not distant fires across the water which the United States and others can ignore. Governments on both sides of the Pacific are unprepared to deal with large scale social problems posed by economic difficulties, poverty, disease, migration, pollution, environmental damage, human rights abuses, corruption, crime, and narcotics. A plethora of ills once described by a disenchanted diplomat as "drugs, thugs, and bugs" ER -