Institutionalizing Northeast Asia

This article introduces the challenges and opportunities for regional cooperation in Northeast Asia.

As introduction to the the book: Institutionalizing Northeast Asia: Regional Steps towards Global Governance, ed. by Martina Timmermann and Jitsuo Tsuchiyma, Tokyo: UNUP 2008, it also presents the main arguments of 22 eminent authors in 19 chapters, ranging from political economy to trade, finance, investment, security, enery, environment, human migration and human security.

Authors include: Richard Higgott (UK), John Weiss (UK), Gilbert Rozman (US), T.J. Pempel (US), Tsuneo Akaha (US), Paul Evans and Brian Job (CAN), Yoshinobu Yamamoto (J), Keisuke Iida (J), Seiichiro Takagi (J), Shin-wa Lee (RoK), Baogang He (CN/AUS), Stuart Harris (AUS) and Cesar de Prado (ES).

United Nations University Press, holding the copyright, kindly agreed to have this chapter made available as MPRA (IDEAS) paper 11556.