Exotic nuclei far off P-stability and asymmetric nuclear matter are investi
gated using nuclear many-body theory Ground and excited states of dripline
nuclei are described by HFB and QRPA theory, respectively The structure of
single nucleon halo nuclei is found to be mainly determined by dynamical co
re polarization. Applications to recent data on longitudinal momentum distr
ibutions from breakup reactions are discussed. Results on neutron skins in
medium and heavy exotic nuclei are presented.