Joint U.S.-Korean Academic Studies, Volume 27; Rethinking Asia in Transition: Security Intentions, Value Gaps, and Evolving Economic Relations

iv, 299, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Endnotes. Gilbert Rozman is the Emeritus Musgrave Professor of Sociology and the editor-in-chief of The Asia Forum, a bi-monthly, on-line journal on international relations in the Indo-Pacific region. He taught at Princeton from 1970 to 2013. His specialization is Northeast Asia, including modernization, national identities, mutual perceptions, regionalism, and strategic thinking. His work has involved comparisons-of socialism and the transition away from the traditional forms of it; of Confucian legacies and their impact on modern societies; of national strategies for regionalism and how they conflict with each other; and of the sources of distrust in bilateral relations and in relations with the United States. Korea Economic Institute (KEI) was founded as the first U.S. "non-profit" institution in 1982 dedicated to promoting dialogue and understanding between the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the United States on economic, political, and security relations. KEI is led by President & CEO Donald Manzullo, former Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Vice President Mark Tokola, LL.M., a 38-year veteran U.S. diplomat and former Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul. Since 1989, KEI has organized four panels of experts to present papers on issues related to the Korean peninsula at academic conferences. The papers discussed at this symposium are subsequently published in KEI's Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies journal. This issue contains articles in the following sections: Deciphering China's Security Intentions in Northeast Asia, Rethinking the South Korea-Japan Values Gap, Economic Relations between North Korea and Its Neighbors, and Shaping the Future of Economic Architecture in East Asia. In addition to the section introductions, there are about a dozen and a half individual articles/presentations. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…