Climate change and implications for security / Stephan Harrison -- Water security in Asia 2030 : a look at Indus and Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna River basins / Uttam Kumar Sinha -- Relative growth of nations : a view in the mirror of history / Nayan Chanda -- The Siamese twins : how the USA and China took the world to the brink of economic disaster / Mohan Guruswamy -- State of criticial infrastructure / Adrian V. Gheorghe -- The geopolitical implications of global ageing / Phillip Longman -- Population movement and diaspora / Judith M. Brown -- Asia's urban futures and its implications for security / Sarita Azad and Narendra S. Sisodia -- Pandemics and its consequences for the future of Asia / Ali Karami -- Hindu nationalism, diaspora politics and nation building in India / Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson -- Religious trends and extremism in Asia / Bilveer Singh -- Cyber security challenges for Asia in a 2030 time frame / Roland Heickerö-- Future of Asian space powers / Ajey Lele -- Pro-poor renewable technology and its impact on society : decentralised renewable energy technologies / David E. Fuente -- The relevance (or otherwise) of nuclear weapons in the 21st century / Pervez Hoodbhoy -- Asian security, Chinese and Indian power and nuclear non-proliferation / Sumit Ganguly and David P. Fidler -- Biological and chemical terrorism : assessing the threat in Asia / Angela Woodward -- Changing security threats : future Asian armies in 2030 / Yong-Sup Han -- Asian air power in 2030 : capabilities and technologies required for potential future scenarios / John P. Geis -- Asian navies : trends towards 2030 / Vijay Sakhuja -- Defence R & D in Asia : achievements and future directions / Nabanita R. Krishnan -- War in 2030 / Martin van Creveld -- The geopolitics of Asia in 2030 : an American perspective / Aaron L. Friedberg -- China and India : geopolitical centre of Asia in 2030 / Li Li-- Japan and American factor in Asia / Makoto Iokibe -- Russia's Asia policy in 2030 / Konstantin Khudoley and Stanislav Tkachenko -- The geopolitics of Asia in 2030 from China's perspective and interest / Chien-Peng (C.P.) Chung -- Hegemony or balance of power? : regional order and conflict in a transforming Asia / G. John Ikenberry -- Is conflict inevitable between the great powers in Asia in 2030? / Namrata Goswami -- Asian futures 2030 : global strategic trends--alternative scenarios / Steve Aiken.