JOHN IKENBERRY is the Peter F. Krogh Professor of Global Justice in the School of Foreign Service, with a joint affiliation in the Department of Government, Georgetown University, USA. . TAKASHI INOGUCHI is Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University, Japan.

"A group of distinguished experts on the U.S. and Asia focus on multilateral institutions in a new and refreshing way. They wisely avoid the one-sided approaches of neo-liberal interdependence or the extreme cynicisms about cooperation of the realists. Instead they see institutions as the tools of states, toolsthat not only constrain but also provide opportunities for states to exploit, enhance, or manipulate bilateral relations and establish boundaries to achieve their goals. This is a truly realistic view of East Asian relations that transcends the previous cliches and moves the field in new and welcome directions." - Ellis Krauss, Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego

• Introduction PART I: LOGICS OF INSTITUTIONS Institutions of Convenience: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Pragmatic Use of International Institutions; M.Mastanduno Japan: Bilateralism at Any Cost?; T.Inoguchi PART II: INSTITUTIONS AND POLITICAL CONTROL Layering Institutions: The Logic of Japan's Institutional Strategy for Regional Security; T.Kawasaki Currents of Power: U.S. Alliances with Japan and Taiwan during the Cold War; V.D. Cha U.S.-Japan Alliance as a Flexible Institution; K.Murata PART III: THE LIMITS OF INSTITUTIONS The Uses of Institutions: The United Nations for Legitimacy; A.Fukushima Money, Capital and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Reginon; J.Kirshner Ripe for Rights: Problems and Prospects for a Human Rights Regime in East Asia; T.Berger

JOHN IKENBERRY is the Peter F. Krogh Professor of Global Justice in the School of Foreign Service, with a joint affiliation in the Department of Government, Georgetown University, USA. . TAKASHI INOGUCHI is Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University, Japan.

"A group of distinguished experts on the U.S. and Asia focus on multilateral institutions in a new and refreshing way. They wisely avoid the one-sided approaches of neo-liberal interdependence or the extreme cynicisms about cooperation of the realists. Instead they see institutions as the tools of states, toolsthat not only constrain but also provide opportunities for states to exploit, enhance, or manipulate bilateral relations and establish boundaries to achieve their goals. This is a truly realistic view of East Asian relations that transcends the previous cliches and moves the field in new and welcome directions." - Ellis Krauss, Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego

• Introduction PART I: LOGICS OF INSTITUTIONS Institutions of Convenience: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Pragmatic Use of International Institutions; M.Mastanduno Japan: Bilateralism at Any Cost?; T.Inoguchi PART II: INSTITUTIONS AND POLITICAL CONTROL Layering Institutions: The Logic of Japan's Institutional Strategy for Regional Security; T.Kawasaki Currents of Power: U.S. Alliances with Japan and Taiwan during the Cold War; V.D. Cha U.S.-Japan Alliance as a Flexible Institution; K.Murata PART III: THE LIMITS OF INSTITUTIONS The Uses of Institutions: The United Nations for Legitimacy; A.Fukushima Money, Capital and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Reginon; J.Kirshner Ripe for Rights: Problems and Prospects for a Human Rights Regime in East Asia; T.Berger

JOHN IKENBERRY is the Peter F. Krogh Professor of Global Justice in the School of Foreign Service, with a joint affiliation in the Department of Government, Georgetown University, USA. . TAKASHI INOGUCHI is Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University, Japan.

"A group of distinguished experts on the U.S. and Asia focus on multilateral institutions in a new and refreshing way. They wisely avoid the one-sided approaches of neo-liberal interdependence or the extreme cynicisms about cooperation of the realists. Instead they see institutions as the tools of states, toolsthat not only constrain but also provide opportunities for states to exploit, enhance, or manipulate bilateral relations and establish boundaries to achieve their goals. This is a truly realistic view of East Asian relations that transcends the previous cliches and moves the field in new and welcome directions." - Ellis Krauss, Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego

• Introduction PART I: LOGICS OF INSTITUTIONS Institutions of Convenience: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Pragmatic Use of International Institutions; M.Mastanduno Japan: Bilateralism at Any Cost?; T.Inoguchi PART II: INSTITUTIONS AND POLITICAL CONTROL Layering Institutions: The Logic of Japan's Institutional Strategy for Regional Security; T.Kawasaki Currents of Power: U.S. Alliances with Japan and Taiwan during the Cold War; V.D. Cha U.S.-Japan Alliance as a Flexible Institution; K.Murata PART III: THE LIMITS OF INSTITUTIONS The Uses of Institutions: The United Nations for Legitimacy; A.Fukushima Money, Capital and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Reginon; J.Kirshner Ripe for Rights: Problems and Prospects for a Human Rights Regime in East Asia; T.Berger