'Alignment Despite Antagonism is a carefully researched treatment of the highs and lows of US-Japan-South Korea trilateral policy coordination - one of the most difficult yet important relationships of US security interests in Asia. It merits reading by both scholars and parctitioners of East Asian security.' William J. Perry, Former Secretary of Defense and Special Advisor to the President on North Kores Policy

• A note to the reader; Abbreviations; Introduction: the puzzle and its importance; 1. The enigma of history; 2. The argument: quasi alliances; 3. Cooperation under the nixon doctrine, 1969-1971; 4. Detente and the heightening crisis, 1972-1974; 5. Vietnam and the Carter years, 1975-1979; 6. The 1980s: evolution and friction during the Reagan years; Conclusion: quasi allies or adversaries in the Post-Cold war era?; Appendix tables; Notes; Index.

'Alignment Despite Antagonism is a carefully researched treatment of the highs and lows of US-Japan-South Korea trilateral policy coordination - one of the most difficult yet important relationships of US security interests in Asia. It merits reading by both scholars and parctitioners of East Asian security.' William J. Perry, Former Secretary of Defense and Special Advisor to the President on North Kores Policy

• A note to the reader; Abbreviations; Introduction: the puzzle and its importance; 1. The enigma of history; 2. The argument: quasi alliances; 3. Cooperation under the nixon doctrine, 1969-1971; 4. Detente and the heightening crisis, 1972-1974; 5. Vietnam and the Carter years, 1975-1979; 6. The 1980s: evolution and friction during the Reagan years; Conclusion: quasi allies or adversaries in the Post-Cold war era?; Appendix tables; Notes; Index.