Rethinking Security in East Asia

J. J. Suh is Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University. Peter J. Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. Allen Carlson is Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University.

• Contents @toc4:Figures and Tablesiii Contributorsiii Prefaceiii @toc2:Chapter 1Rethinking Asian Security: A Case for Analytical Eclecticism1 @tocca:Peter J. Katzenstein and Rudra Sil @toc2:Chapter 2Beijing's Security Behavior in the Asia- Pacific: Is China a Dissatisfied Power?000 @tocca:Alastair Iain Johnston @toc2:Chapter 3Japan and Asian-Pacific Security000 @tocca:Peter J. Katzenstein and Nobuo Okawara @toc2:Chapter 4Bound to Last? The U.S.-Korea Alliance and Analytical Eclecticism000 @tocca:J. J. Suh @toc2:Chapter 5Coping with Strategic Uncertainty: The Role of Institutions and Soft Balancing in Southeast Asia's PostCold War Strategy000 @tocca:Yuen Foong Khong @toc2:Chapter 6The Value of Rethinking East Asian Security: Denaturalizing and Explaining a Complex Security Dynamic000 @tocca:Allen Carlson and J. J. Suh @toc4:Bibliography000 Index000 @fmct:Figures and Tables @fmh1:Figures @fmli:Figure 1.1.Research Traditions and Points of Convergence Figure 1.2.The Possibilities of Eclecticism Figure 2.1.China's International Organization Memberships in Comparative Perspective, 19962000 Figure 2.2.China's Actual and Expected Memberships in International Organizations, 19972000 Figure 2.3.Comparative Reductions in Mean Tariff Rates, 19921997 Figure 2.4.Voting in the UN Commission on Human Rights on No-Action Motions on Resolutions Critical of the PRC, 19902001 Figure 2.5.Mean Similarity Index with Select Countries per Foreign Policy Period Figure 2.6.Chinese Estimates of Trends in Comprehensive National Power Figure 2.7.Frequency of International Relations Articles Using the Terms "Multipolarity" (duojihua) and "Globalization" (quanqiuhua) in Chinese Academic Journals, 19942001 Figure 2.8.Articles Mentioning "China Threat Theory" (Zhongguo weixie lun) in the Text as Percentage of All International Relations Articles, 19942002 Figure 4.1.Causal Arrows of the Institutionalist Theory of Alliance Persistence @fmh1:Table Table 4.1.Three-Stage Model of Institutionalization Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: East Asia Foreign relations, Security, International, National security East Asia

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