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Asia's middle powers face a trilateral dilemma stemming from their relationships with the U.S. and China. This paper uses the Australian example to examine the dilemma. It shows that Australia has bound itself to the U.S. because of domestic political factors, cost considerations, a belief that it can keep its interests separate, and its perception of regional threats. The paper then argues that others are likely to resolve their trilateral dilemmas in ways that make the regional strategic dynamic more competitive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Addresses the issue of how well the 1981 US State Department `White Paper' on El Salvador accurately assessed the role of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and a number of its allies in the Salvadoran civil war. Issue of the authenticity of the captured rebel documents and other criticisms of the `White Paper'; Soviet rethinking of armed struggle and the lessons of Nicaragua.

This paper provides a critical overview of Australian, Chinese, and American perspectives on trilateralism, with a detailed discussion of Australian debates on the matter. Its aim is to trace the evolution of the changing discourse on the rise of China, examine major debates in Australia, and provide both an intellectual background and an overview for this special issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on three research papers on Vietnamese history that were presented at the 2004 meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association. These three papers are contained in this issue of the journal "Pacific Historical Review." The first paper "Vietnam, the Bush Administration's War in Iraq, and the Search for a Usable Past," by T. Christopher Jespersen, provides a wide-ranging discussion of the relationship between history and political positioning. His essay looks at the different ways that Americans wishing to understand the global politics of terrorism and war in the twenty-first century have sought analogies from three Asian-Pacific wars. Other two papers, discussed here, are: "Hanoi and Americanization of the War in Vietnam: New Evidence From Vietnam," by Pierre Asselin and "Nation Building and the Vietnam War: A Historiography," by Christopher Fisher.