Power and Security in Northeast Asia: Shifting Strategies

As China's influence rises and the US attempts to retain its primacy in Northeast Asia, the countries of the region are reconsidering their own security needs and availing themselves of new opportunities. Power and Security in Northeast Asia explores the complexities of current security strategies in the region, revealing motivations and policies not often considered by traditional international relations analyses.

Byung-Kook Kim is professor of political science at Korea University and director of the East Asia Institute(www.eai.or.kr) in Seoul. Among numerous publications are Consolidating Democracy in South Korea, coedited with Larry Diamond, and Korean Politics.

Anthony Jones is associate professor of sociology at Northeastern University. He is coeditor with Jorge Dominguez of The Construction of Democracy: Building and Sustaining a Democratic State in the Modern Age.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Question of Power and Order in Northeast Asia? ｜ the Editors.

Part 1. THE UNITED STATES IN NORTHEAST ASIA: INESCAPABLE HEGEMON.

US Influence in a Changing Asia ｜ Stephan Haggard

US Strategies in Northeast Asia: A Revisionist Hegemon ｜ Jonathan D. Pollack

Part 2. NORTHEAST ASIA'S MAJOR POWERS: ACCOMMODATING THE US.

China's Hedged Acquiescence: Coping with US Hegemony ｜ Minxin Pei

Japan's Activism Lite: Bandwagoning the United States ｜ Yoshinobu Yamamoto

Russia's China Card: Eyes on Washington ｜ Alexander Lukin

Part3. NORTHEAST ASIA'S MIDDLE POWERS: DEMANDING MORE, TAKING RISKS.

North and South Korea: Unlikely Challenger, Unlikely Mediator ｜ Byung-Kook Kim

Taiwan's Politics of Identity: Navigating in between China and the US ｜ Yun-han Chu

CONCLUSION: Interests, Identity, and Power in Northeast Asian Security ｜ Byung-Kook Kim