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China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia
This book considers themes, evidence and ideas relating to the prospects for regional leadership in East Asia, with particular reference to China and Japan assuming ‘regional leader actor’ roles. Key issues discussed by the list of distinguished contributors include:
• the extent to which there is an East Asian region to lead
• China–Japan relations
• different aspects of Japan and China’s positions in the East Asia region
• how the seemingly inexorable rise of China is being addressed within the
region
• how China and Japan have explored paths of regional leadership through
certain regional and multilateral organisations and frameworks
• the position of certain ‘intermediary powers’ (i.e. the United States and
Korea) with regards to regional leadership diplomacy in East Asia.
Invaluably, the concluding chapter brings together the main findings of the book and presents new analytical approaches for studying the nature of, and prospects for leadership in East Asia.
• the extent to which there is an East Asian region to lead
• China–Japan relations
• different aspects of Japan and China’s positions in the East Asia region
• how the seemingly inexorable rise of China is being addressed within the
region
• how China and Japan have explored paths of regional leadership through
certain regional and multilateral organisations and frameworks
• the position of certain ‘intermediary powers’ (i.e. the United States and
Korea) with regards to regional leadership diplomacy in East Asia.
Invaluably, the concluding chapter brings together the main findings of the book and presents new analytical approaches for studying the nature of, and prospects for leadership in East Asia.
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Contributors
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This book considers themes, evidence and ideas relating to the prospects for regional leadership in East Asia, with particular reference to China and Japan assuming ‘regional leader actor’ roles. Key issues discussed by the list of distinguished contributors include:
• the extent to which there is an East Asian region to lead
• China–Japan relations
• different aspects of Japan and China’s positions in the East Asia region
• how the seemingly inexorable rise of China is being addressed within the
region
• how China and Japan have explored paths of regional leadership through
certain regional and multilateral organisations and frameworks
• the position of certain ‘intermediary powers’ (i.e. the United States and
Korea) with regards to regional leadership diplomacy in East Asia.
Invaluably, the concluding chapter brings together the main findings of the book and presents new analytical approaches for studying the nature of, and prospects for leadership in East Asia.
China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia will be essential reading for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers of international relations, regional studies, international political economy and economics as well as Asian and development studies.
• the extent to which there is an East Asian region to lead
• China–Japan relations
• different aspects of Japan and China’s positions in the East Asia region
• how the seemingly inexorable rise of China is being addressed within the
region
• how China and Japan have explored paths of regional leadership through
certain regional and multilateral organisations and frameworks
• the position of certain ‘intermediary powers’ (i.e. the United States and
Korea) with regards to regional leadership diplomacy in East Asia.
Invaluably, the concluding chapter brings together the main findings of the book and presents new analytical approaches for studying the nature of, and prospects for leadership in East Asia.
China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia will be essential reading for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers of international relations, regional studies, international political economy and economics as well as Asian and development studies.
Critical Acclaim
‘China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia is a compilation which provides a necessary and welcome update to the Asian regionalism debates of the last decade, bringing together notable experts in Asian area studies and comparative foreign policy to provide many new insights. . . essential reading both for practitioners of Asian studies and those concerned with the role of comparative regionalism in modern international relations.’
– Marc Lanteigne, East Asia – An International Quarterly
‘. . . this book is strongly recommended reading for everyone interested in Japan–China relations, leadership, and East Asia. It proves that looking at complex issues from a variety of angles does bring a much deeper understanding. I thoroughly enjoyed it!’
– Marie Söderberg, Journal of Japanese Studies
‘This book addresses one of the most intriguing but also under-researched issues of the future of the Asian strategic landscape: who will lead the region and replace US leadership, Japan and China, and what kind of leadership do we have to expect? The authors come to the conclusion that it is a matrix or combination of leadership options rather than a single leadership type, depending on issue domains, governance structure and geospatial scales. . . The conclusions by Christopher Dent admirably draw the theoretical and empirical issues together.’
– Reinhard Drifte, Pacific Affairs
– Marc Lanteigne, East Asia – An International Quarterly
‘. . . this book is strongly recommended reading for everyone interested in Japan–China relations, leadership, and East Asia. It proves that looking at complex issues from a variety of angles does bring a much deeper understanding. I thoroughly enjoyed it!’
– Marie Söderberg, Journal of Japanese Studies
‘This book addresses one of the most intriguing but also under-researched issues of the future of the Asian strategic landscape: who will lead the region and replace US leadership, Japan and China, and what kind of leadership do we have to expect? The authors come to the conclusion that it is a matrix or combination of leadership options rather than a single leadership type, depending on issue domains, governance structure and geospatial scales. . . The conclusions by Christopher Dent admirably draw the theoretical and empirical issues together.’
– Reinhard Drifte, Pacific Affairs
Contributors
Contributors: M. Beeson, C. Bluth, S. Breslin, C.M. Dent, H. Dobson, J. Dosch, S. Hamanaka, C.W. Hughes, R. Li, N. Renwick, C. Rose, S. Tsang
Contents
Contents:
Preface
PART I: ‘LEADING’ THE EAST ASIA REGION
1. What Region to Lead? Developments in East Asian Regionalism and Questions of Regional Leadership
Christopher M. Dent
PART II: CHINA–JAPAN RELATIONS IN FOCUS
2. Japan’s Policy Towards China: Domestic Structural Change, Globalisation, History and Nationalism
Christopher W. Hughes
3. Sino-Japanese Relations After Koizumi and the Limits of ‘New Era’ Diplomacy
Caroline Rose
PART III: JAPAN AND CHINA IN THE EAST ASIA REGION
4. Comparing Summitry, Financial and Trade Regionalisms in East Asia: From the Japanese Perspective
Shintaro Hamanaka
5. China’s Place in East Asia
Steve Tsang
6. A Regional Partner or a Threatening Other? Chinese Discourse of Japan’s Changing Security Role in East Asia
Rex Li
PART IV: ADDRESSING THE RISE OF CHINA
7. Towards a Sino-centric Regional Order? Empowering China and Constructing Regional Order(s)
Shaun Breslin
8. Who’s Leading Who in ASEAN–China Relations? Community-Building versus Pax Sinica in the Management of Regional Security
Joern Dosch
PART V: REGIONAL AND MULTILATERAL ORGANIZATION PERSPECTIVES
9. Leadership in Global Governance: Japan and China in the G8 and the United Nations
Hugo Dobson
10. Contesting East Asian Security Leadership: China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Neil Renwick
PART VI: INTERMEDIARY POWERS? THE UNITED STATES AND
KOREA
11. The United States and East Asia: The Decline of Long-Distance Leadership?
Mark Beeson
12. A Shrimp Among the Whales? Korea in the Northeast and East Asia Regional System
Christoph Bluth and Christopher M. Dent
PART VII: CONCLUSION
13. Regional Leadership in East Asia: Towards New Analytical Approaches
Christopher M. Dent
Index
Preface
PART I: ‘LEADING’ THE EAST ASIA REGION
1. What Region to Lead? Developments in East Asian Regionalism and Questions of Regional Leadership
Christopher M. Dent
PART II: CHINA–JAPAN RELATIONS IN FOCUS
2. Japan’s Policy Towards China: Domestic Structural Change, Globalisation, History and Nationalism
Christopher W. Hughes
3. Sino-Japanese Relations After Koizumi and the Limits of ‘New Era’ Diplomacy
Caroline Rose
PART III: JAPAN AND CHINA IN THE EAST ASIA REGION
4. Comparing Summitry, Financial and Trade Regionalisms in East Asia: From the Japanese Perspective
Shintaro Hamanaka
5. China’s Place in East Asia
Steve Tsang
6. A Regional Partner or a Threatening Other? Chinese Discourse of Japan’s Changing Security Role in East Asia
Rex Li
PART IV: ADDRESSING THE RISE OF CHINA
7. Towards a Sino-centric Regional Order? Empowering China and Constructing Regional Order(s)
Shaun Breslin
8. Who’s Leading Who in ASEAN–China Relations? Community-Building versus Pax Sinica in the Management of Regional Security
Joern Dosch
PART V: REGIONAL AND MULTILATERAL ORGANIZATION PERSPECTIVES
9. Leadership in Global Governance: Japan and China in the G8 and the United Nations
Hugo Dobson
10. Contesting East Asian Security Leadership: China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Neil Renwick
PART VI: INTERMEDIARY POWERS? THE UNITED STATES AND
KOREA
11. The United States and East Asia: The Decline of Long-Distance Leadership?
Mark Beeson
12. A Shrimp Among the Whales? Korea in the Northeast and East Asia Regional System
Christoph Bluth and Christopher M. Dent
PART VII: CONCLUSION
13. Regional Leadership in East Asia: Towards New Analytical Approaches
Christopher M. Dent
Index
