Remapping East Asia：The Construction of a Region

AnoverarchingambiguitycharacterizesEastAsiatoday.Theregionhasatleastacentury-longhistoryofinternaldivisiveness,war,andconflict,anditremainsthesiteofseveralnettlesometerritorialdisputes.However,amixtureofcomplexandoftencompetingagentsandprocesseshasbeenknittingtogethervarioussegmentsofEastAsia.InRemappingEastAsia,T.J.Pempelsuggeststhattheregionisripeforcooperationratherthanrivalryandthatrecent"region-building"developmentsinEastAsiahavehadasubstantialcumulativeeffectonthebroadercanvasofinternationalpolitics.Thiscollectionisaboutthepeople,processes,andinstitutionsbehindthatregion-building.Init,expertsontheareatakeabroadapproachtothedynamicsandimplicationsofregionalism.Insteadoflimitingtheirfocustosecuritymatters,theyextendtheirdiscussionstotopicsasdiverseasthemercurialnatureofJapan'sleadershiproleintheregion,SoutheastAsianbusinessnetworks,thewaronterrorisminAsia,andthepoliticaleconomyofenvironmentalregionalism.Throughout,theyshowhownation-states,corporations,andproblem-specificcoalitionshavefurtheredregionalcohesionnotonlybyestablishingformalinstitutions,butalsobyoperatinginformally,semiformally,orevensecretly.