This book examines the changing national identities that are transforming East Asia - pushing China and Taiwan apart and toward a showdown, while propping up a weakened North Korea. Accomplished contributors analyze the dynamics and the U.S.'s policy response.

SHALE HOROWITZ is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.

UK HEO is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.

ALEXANDER C. TAN is Associate Professor of and Reader in Comparative Politics, and the Political Science Program Director in the School of Political Science and Communications at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Democratization and National Identity in the China-Taiwan and Korean Conflicts; S.Horowitz , U.Heo& A.C.Tan The Evolution of China's National Interest: Implications for Taiwan; P.Moody Taiwan: Political and National Security of Becoming 'Taiwanese'; H. Stockton Economic Interdependence between China and Taiwan: Implications for Identity and National Security; C.Clark * Explaining U.S. Policy towards China and Taiwan; S.B.Redd Rising China vs. Estranged Taiwan; S.Horowitz , U.Heo& A.C.Tan North Korea in Crisis: Regime, Identity, and Strategy; T.Roehrig South Korea's Response: Democracy, Identity, and Strategy; J.H.Woo U.S. Strategy in the Korean Conflict; M.Begovic& K.DeRouen Japan's Response to Asia's Security Problems; D.Patterson The North Korean Nuclear Crisis; I.Taek Hyun& Sung Deuk Hahm * The United States and East Asia: Past and Future; S.Horowitz