Institutionalizing northeast Asia : regional steps towards global governance / edited by Martina Timmermann and Jitsuo Tsuchiyama.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Institutionalization in northeast Asia: is outside-in regionalization enough? / Yoshinobu Yamamoto -- Institutionalizing East Asia: learning lessons from Europe on regionalism, regionalization, identity and leadership / Richard Higgott, Martina Timmermann -- Normative regionalism in east Asia / Baogang He -- Northeast Asian regionalism at a crossroads: is an east Asian community in sight? / Gilbert Rozman -- Overcoming a difficult past: the history problem and institution building in northeast Asia / Thomas Berger -- The function and dysfunction of identity in an institutionalizing process: the case of northeast Asia / Takashi Oshimura -- Do alliance networks in northeast Asia contribute to peace and stability? The US-Japan alliance in focus / Jitsuo Tsuchiyama -- Northeast Asian security community: from concepts to practices / Shin-wha Lee -- The Chinese approach to regional security institutionalism / Seiichiro Takagi -- The proliferation security initiative from an institutional perspective: an "outside-in" institution? / Chiyuki Aoi -- Institutional linkages and security governance: security multilateralism in the Korean peninsula / Tsutomu Kikuchi -- Institutionalizing trade and investment in east Asia, the FTA and BIT strategies of northeast Asian powers / Keisuke Iida -- Firebreak: east Asia institutionalizes its finances / T.J. Pempel -- China and its neighbours: patterns of trade and investment / John Weiss -- Institutionalizing northeast Asia: the energy market / Stuart Harris -- A small leap forward: regional cooperation for tackling the problems of the environment and natural resources in northeast Asia / Hiroshi Ohta -- Multilevel regionalization through think-tanks, higher education and multimedia / César de Prado -- International migration and human rights: a case for a regional approach in northeast Asia / Tsuneo Akaha, Brian Ettkin -- Human security and northeast Asia: seeds germinating on hard ground / Brian L. Job, Paul M. Evans -- Conclusion: challenges and potentials for institutionalization in northeast Asia / Jitsuo Tsuchiyama..