Japan and Asia’s Contested Order

T. J. Pempel, with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, is Jack M. Forcey Professor of Political Science in U.C. Berkeley's Department of Political Science which he joined in July 2001. He served as director of the Institute of East Asian Studies from 2002 until 2006.Yul Sohn, with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Political Science, is Professor of International Studies in Yonsei University's Graduate School of International Studies. He is also President of the East Asia Institute, a premier foreign policy think-tank in South Korea.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Conceptualizing the Economic-Security-Identity Nexus in East Asia’s Regional Order.- 3. Post-Cold War Order in the Asia-Pacific: Equilibrium and its Challenges.- 4. To Dream an Impossible Dream: China’s Visions of Regional Order and the Implications for Japan.- 5. Spying, Subversion and Great Power Identity Conflict between the United States and China.- 6. North Korean Identity as a Challenge to East Asia’s Regional Order.- 7. One Hand Clapping: Japanese Nationalism in the Abe Era.- 8. Confronting History and Security Through Territorial Claims.- 9. Japan's Security Policy and East Asia.- 10. Japan: Working to Shape the Regional Order.- 11. Japan-China Relations and the Changing East Asian Regional Order.- 12. Japan and the Identity Politics of East Asian Maritime Disputes.- 13. Japan and South Korea: The Identity-Security-Economy Nexus in a Turbulent Relationship.- 14. Japan and Northeast Asian Regionalism: Overcoming Political Animosity for Economic Integration.- 15. Conclusion.