Edward Friedman is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the co- author of Chinese Village Socialist State, and Revolution, Resistance and Reform in Village China; editor of China's Rise, Taiwan's Dilemmas and International Peace; and co-editor of Asia's Giants: Comparing India and China.Sung Chull Kim is Associate Professor at Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University. He is the author of North Korea under Kim Jong Il: From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance. He has also contributed a number of articles on political theory and North Korea in journals including Systems Research and Behavioural Science, and Communist Studies and Transition Politics.

'The book is a welcome newcomer in the regional cooperation literature of the Asian Pacific...The chapters in this book are rich in detail, informative in description, insightful in analysis, and poignant in argument...This volume is probably not the final word on Northeast Asian regional cooperation but it goes beyond what is offered by most similar publications, and it does so in fewer pages.' - Nobuhiro Hiwatari, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 80, No. 3, Fall 2007

• 1. Introduction 2. Domestic Politics and Regional Cooperation in Southeast and Northeast Asia 3. An Emerging Northeast Asian Community: Domestic Dimension to Consider 4. Washington’s Policies toward North Korea and the Taiwan Strait: The Role of US Domestic Politics 5. Two Koreas in Northeast Asia: Linkages between Domestic, Inter-Korean, and Regional Politics 6. The Transformation of Chinese Foreign Policy 7. The Fragility of China’s Regional Cooepration 8. State Consolidation and Foreign Policy in Russia 9. Mediating Geopolitics, Markets, Regionalism: Domestic Politics in Japan’s Post Cold War Relations with China 10. Transnational Cooperation among NGOs in Northeast Asia: From Re-Thinking Development towards Re-Thinking Security 11. Conclusion

Edward Friedman is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the co- author of Chinese Village Socialist State, and Revolution, Resistance and Reform in Village China; editor of China's Rise, Taiwan's Dilemmas and International Peace; and co-editor of Asia's Giants: Comparing India and China.Sung Chull Kim is Associate Professor at Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University. He is the author of North Korea under Kim Jong Il: From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance. He has also contributed a number of articles on political theory and North Korea in journals including Systems Research and Behavioural Science, and Communist Studies and Transition Politics.

'The book is a welcome newcomer in the regional cooperation literature of the Asian Pacific...The chapters in this book are rich in detail, informative in description, insightful in analysis, and poignant in argument...This volume is probably not the final word on Northeast Asian regional cooperation but it goes beyond what is offered by most similar publications, and it does so in fewer pages.' - Nobuhiro Hiwatari, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 80, No. 3, Fall 2007

• 1. Introduction 2. Domestic Politics and Regional Cooperation in Southeast and Northeast Asia 3. An Emerging Northeast Asian Community: Domestic Dimension to Consider 4. Washington’s Policies toward North Korea and the Taiwan Strait: The Role of US Domestic Politics 5. Two Koreas in Northeast Asia: Linkages between Domestic, Inter-Korean, and Regional Politics 6. The Transformation of Chinese Foreign Policy 7. The Fragility of China’s Regional Cooepration 8. State Consolidation and Foreign Policy in Russia 9. Mediating Geopolitics, Markets, Regionalism: Domestic Politics in Japan’s Post Cold War Relations with China 10. Transnational Cooperation among NGOs in Northeast Asia: From Re-Thinking Development towards Re-Thinking Security 11. Conclusion