East Asia beyond Japan / Peter J. Katzenstein -- A decade of political torpor : when political logic trumps economic rationality / T.J. Pempel -- Students, slackers, singles, seniors, and strangers : transforming a family-nation / William W. Kelly and Merry I. White -- Immovable object? : Japan's security policy in East Asia / H. Richard Friman, Peter J. Katzenstein, David Leheny, and Nobuo Okawara -- Creating a regional arena : financial sector reconstruction, globalization, and region-making / Natasha Hamilton-Hart -- Has politics caught up with markets? : in search of East Asian economic regionalism / Naoko Munakata -- Searching for a new role in East Asian regionalization : Japanese production networks in the electronics industry / Dieter Ernst -- Regional shrimp, global trees, Chinese vegetables : the environment in Japan-East Asia relations / Derek Hall -- A narrow place to cross swords : "soft power" and the politics of Japanese popular culture in East Asia / David Leheny -- The third wave : Southeast Asia and middle-class formation in the making of a region / Takashi Shiraishi.