China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia

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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