Table of Contents

Foreword by Akihiro Iwashita and Jonathan Bull.

Preface by Mihoko Kato

• A Reflection on East Asian IR Theory Building: From Here to Where?
  by Yong-Chool Ha (University of Washington)  1 

• Shaping East Asia’s Regional Order
  by T.J. Pempel (University of California, Berkeley).  6 

• Relationship between Asia and Kyushu
  by Hiroyuki Okamoto (Kyushu Economic Research Center) 9

• Building Trust in Northeast Asia under Gloomy Global Skies: The Role for Academics
  by Paul Evans (Institute of Asian Research, University of British Colombia) 20

• Discussants’ Comments
  by Beom-Shik Shin (Seoul National University) 23


• by Sergey Sevastyanov (Far Eastern Federal University) 25

• Discussion with the Audience
  27

• 　by T.J. Pempel (University of California, Berkeley) 33
•   　 ENDING BIPOLARITY 34
•   　DEEPENING INTRA-ASIAN ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL INTERDEPENDENCE 35
•   　DEEPENING REGIONAL INSTITUTIONALIZATION 37
•   　JAPAN’S BALANCE OF SECURITY AND ECONOMICS, BILATERALISM AND REGIONALISM 40
•   　CONCLUSION 44

• 　by Paul Evans (Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia) 48
•   　 GETTING TO COOPERATION 50
•   　ACADEMIC ROLES 51
•   　CONCLUDING NOTE 52