'Through interviews, gives a behind-the-scenes look at negotiations to denuclearize the Korean peninsula. Offering multiple perspectives on the second Korean nuclear crisis, provides a window of understanding on the historical, geopolitical, and securityconcerns at play on the peninsula since 2002, paying special attention to China's dealings with North Korea'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Recent events in Asia-Pacific underline the pivotal importance of the China-Japan-U.S. relationship for the future evolution of the region. In an important follow-up to their path-breaking 1996 assessment, China-Japan-US: Managing the Trilateral Relationship, the three original co-authors review the underlying challenges confronting the development of this "vital triangle...read more

The US-Japan alliance is confronting its most critical test since its inception in 1951. It is facing a new evolutionary stage in a radically-changed context, with the rise of China, Asia's economic crisis, and Japan's economic deadline and political immobility. This is an overview of the process of "redefining" the US-Japan alliance. It presents four specific case studies: the impact of macroeconomic and trade frictions on the alliance; the effect on the functions of the alliance of the suspicions about North Korea's nuclear programme; the vehement protests against the alliance triggered by the rape of an Okinawan schoolgirl by US servicemen in 1995; and the challenges to the alliance posed by the straining of sino-American relations over Taiwan and the Chinese missile tests in 1996, which prompted America's decision to dispatch an aircraft carrier to the region. These events were all part of the "redefining" process, a process which continues.

Product Description: Japanese journalist Yoichi Funabashi has written the first in-depth study of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum based on extensive interviews with heads of state and government officials in the region. A key force behind APEC, he argues, is a potential "fusion" of Asia-Pacific civilizations propelled by the region s dynamic economic integration...read more

Product Description: The established world order is challenged by the prospect of a rapidly rising China. This book charts a course for the trilateral countries (Japan, North America and Western Europe) in dealing with China. It considers China's rise more an opportunity than a threat, and recommends a wide range of economic, strategic, and political actions that would facilitate China's involvement in the world community...read more