Edited by Christopher M. Dent, Leeds Trinity University, UK

• Contents:PrefacePART I: ‘LEADING’ THE EAST ASIA REGION 1. What Region to Lead? Developments in East Asian Regionalism and Questions of Regional LeadershipChristopher M. DentPART II: CHINA–JAPAN RELATIONS IN FOCUS2. Japan’s Policy Towards China: Domestic Structural Change, Globalisation, History and NationalismChristopher W. Hughes3. Sino-Japanese Relations After Koizumi and the Limits of ‘New Era’ Diplomacy Caroline RosePART III: JAPAN AND CHINA IN THE EAST ASIA REGION4. Comparing Summitry, Financial and Trade Regionalisms in East Asia: From the Japanese PerspectiveShintaro Hamanaka5. China’s Place in East AsiaSteve Tsang6. A Regional Partner or a Threatening Other? Chinese Discourse of Japan’s Changing Security Role in East AsiaRex LiPART IV: ADDRESSING THE RISE OF CHINA7. Towards a Sino-centric Regional Order? Empowering China and Constructing Regional Order(s)Shaun Breslin8. Who’s Leading Who in ASEAN–China Relations? Community-Building versus Pax Sinica in the Management of Regional SecurityJoern DoschPART V: REGIONAL AND MULTILATERAL ORGANIZATION PERSPECTIVES 9. Leadership in Global Governance: Japan and China in the G8 and the United NationsHugo Dobson10. Contesting East Asian Security Leadership: China and the Shanghai Cooperation OrganisationNeil RenwickPART VI: INTERMEDIARY POWERS? THE UNITED STATES ANDKOREA 11. The United States and East Asia: The Decline of Long-Distance Leadership?Mark Beeson12. A Shrimp Among the Whales? Korea in the Northeast and East Asia Regional SystemChristoph Bluth and Christopher M. DentPART VII: CONCLUSION13. Regional Leadership in East Asia: Towards New Analytical Approaches Christopher M. DentIndex

‘China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia is a compilation which provides a necessary and welcome update to the Asian regionalism debates of the last decade, bringing together notable experts in Asian area studies and comparative foreign policy to provide many new insights. . . essential reading both for practitioners of Asian studies and those concerned with the role of comparative regionalism in modern international relations.'

Edited by Christopher M. Dent, Leeds Trinity University, UK

• Contents:PrefacePART I: ‘LEADING’ THE EAST ASIA REGION 1. What Region to Lead? Developments in East Asian Regionalism and Questions of Regional LeadershipChristopher M. DentPART II: CHINA–JAPAN RELATIONS IN FOCUS2. Japan’s Policy Towards China: Domestic Structural Change, Globalisation, History and NationalismChristopher W. Hughes3. Sino-Japanese Relations After Koizumi and the Limits of ‘New Era’ Diplomacy Caroline RosePART III: JAPAN AND CHINA IN THE EAST ASIA REGION4. Comparing Summitry, Financial and Trade Regionalisms in East Asia: From the Japanese PerspectiveShintaro Hamanaka5. China’s Place in East AsiaSteve Tsang6. A Regional Partner or a Threatening Other? Chinese Discourse of Japan’s Changing Security Role in East AsiaRex LiPART IV: ADDRESSING THE RISE OF CHINA7. Towards a Sino-centric Regional Order? Empowering China and Constructing Regional Order(s)Shaun Breslin8. Who’s Leading Who in ASEAN–China Relations? Community-Building versus Pax Sinica in the Management of Regional SecurityJoern DoschPART V: REGIONAL AND MULTILATERAL ORGANIZATION PERSPECTIVES 9. Leadership in Global Governance: Japan and China in the G8 and the United NationsHugo Dobson10. Contesting East Asian Security Leadership: China and the Shanghai Cooperation OrganisationNeil RenwickPART VI: INTERMEDIARY POWERS? THE UNITED STATES ANDKOREA 11. The United States and East Asia: The Decline of Long-Distance Leadership?Mark Beeson12. A Shrimp Among the Whales? Korea in the Northeast and East Asia Regional SystemChristoph Bluth and Christopher M. DentPART VII: CONCLUSION13. Regional Leadership in East Asia: Towards New Analytical Approaches Christopher M. DentIndex

‘China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia is a compilation which provides a necessary and welcome update to the Asian regionalism debates of the last decade, bringing together notable experts in Asian area studies and comparative foreign policy to provide many new insights. . . essential reading both for practitioners of Asian studies and those concerned with the role of comparative regionalism in modern international relations.'

Edited by Christopher M. Dent, Leeds Trinity University, UK

• Contents:PrefacePART I: ‘LEADING’ THE EAST ASIA REGION 1. What Region to Lead? Developments in East Asian Regionalism and Questions of Regional LeadershipChristopher M. DentPART II: CHINA–JAPAN RELATIONS IN FOCUS2. Japan’s Policy Towards China: Domestic Structural Change, Globalisation, History and NationalismChristopher W. Hughes3. Sino-Japanese Relations After Koizumi and the Limits of ‘New Era’ Diplomacy Caroline RosePART III: JAPAN AND CHINA IN THE EAST ASIA REGION4. Comparing Summitry, Financial and Trade Regionalisms in East Asia: From the Japanese PerspectiveShintaro Hamanaka5. China’s Place in East AsiaSteve Tsang6. A Regional Partner or a Threatening Other? Chinese Discourse of Japan’s Changing Security Role in East AsiaRex LiPART IV: ADDRESSING THE RISE OF CHINA7. Towards a Sino-centric Regional Order? Empowering China and Constructing Regional Order(s)Shaun Breslin8. Who’s Leading Who in ASEAN–China Relations? Community-Building versus Pax Sinica in the Management of Regional SecurityJoern DoschPART V: REGIONAL AND MULTILATERAL ORGANIZATION PERSPECTIVES 9. Leadership in Global Governance: Japan and China in the G8 and the United NationsHugo Dobson10. Contesting East Asian Security Leadership: China and the Shanghai Cooperation OrganisationNeil RenwickPART VI: INTERMEDIARY POWERS? THE UNITED STATES ANDKOREA 11. The United States and East Asia: The Decline of Long-Distance Leadership?Mark Beeson12. A Shrimp Among the Whales? Korea in the Northeast and East Asia Regional SystemChristoph Bluth and Christopher M. DentPART VII: CONCLUSION13. Regional Leadership in East Asia: Towards New Analytical Approaches Christopher M. DentIndex

‘China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia is a compilation which provides a necessary and welcome update to the Asian regionalism debates of the last decade, bringing together notable experts in Asian area studies and comparative foreign policy to provide many new insights. . . essential reading both for practitioners of Asian studies and those concerned with the role of comparative regionalism in modern international relations.'