1. In per-capita terms Asia still ranks behind Western Europe, but ahead of Eastern Europe. If Asia-Pacific states are included, the area’s GNP is 17% of worid GNP, compared to 20–25% for both North America and Europe.
2. Figures include civilian deaths as a result of war, with an estimeated 4.5 m in East Asia and 1.9 m in South Asia.
3. Hedley Bull, The Control of the Arms Race. (London: Weidenfeld, 1961) p.ix.
4. It has been suggested by some developing states in Asia (for example, India) that arms control is a superpower or a European idea and thus it is ethnocentric to discuss it in the Asian context. Without mincing words, at best this is a semantic argument, and more likely it is a rhetorical flourish. In 1985 alone, India held talks with five other non-aligned states in Delhi explicitly about arms control (27–9 Jan.), and discussed such detailed matters as enhancing verification procedures with Sweden in Oct.—Nov. For a critique of ethnocentrism on the part of the first and third world see Ken Booth, Strategy and Ethnocentrism (London: Croom Helm, 1979) and Gerald Segal, ‘Strategy and Ethnic-chic’, International Affairs vol. 60 no. 1, 1983 — 84.
5. Otherwise challenging books on Asian security issues have largely ignored the arms control issues. See for example, Wayne Wilcox et al., (eds), Asia and the International System (Cambridge: Winthrop, 1972), William Tow and William Feeney (eds), U.S. Foreign Policy and Asia—Pacific Security (Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1982); Charles Morrison (ed), Threats to Security in East Asia—Pacific (Lexington Books, 1983); Donald Hugh McMillen (ed), Asia’s Perspectives on International Security (London: Macmillan, 1984); Claude Buss (ed), National Security Interests in the Pacific Basin (Stanford, Cal.: Hoover Institution, 1985); John Stephen and V. P. Chiclekanov. (eds), Soviet—American Horizons on the Pacific (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986); For a stimulating, but now dated book see D. E. Kennedy, The Security of Southern Asia (London: Chatto & Windus, 1965).