The current volume, the fifth in succession, contains twenty one well-researched articles, authored by eminent scholars from India and abroad, are devoted to security and cooperation in Asia and the Asia pacific region, new International political and economic order, multi-polarisation bilateral relations between India and China, new Russian Perspective on Asia , possibilities for trilateral cooperation between India, Russia and China, and prospects for a peaceful future of Xinjiang. Central Asia in the focus of the current issue also.