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Book Review

Asia

Charles K. Armstrong, Gilbert Rozman, Samuel S. Kim, and Stephen Kotkin, editors. Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia. (Northeast Asia Seminar.) Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe. 2006. Pp. xiii, 319. Cloth $84.95, paper $29.95.

Is Korea indeed at the center of Asian regionalism? The question provides a theme and a title for this ambitious collection of conference papers. Scholars assess a regional role from the turbulent late nineteenth century through the Japanese colony and early years of the Cold War, before concluding with competing regimes in divided Korea today. Separate essays on socialist versus capitalist regional orders, on concepts and continuities in regionalism among Korea's neighbors, and on relatively understudied regional issues of environment and South Korea's cultural wave will attract a wide audience. Russian and Chinese regional policy garner some attention, but it is the chapters on Japan's regional rhetoric and reality that may prove the strength of this collection. Breadth of coverage is seldom matched by depth, but the volume does offer an excellent and indeed unique introduction to Korea's place in Asian regionalism.

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