1. Between compliance and conflict : comparing U.S.-East Asian and U.S.-Latin American relations / Jorge I. Dominguez and Byung-Kook Kim -- 2. A new Pax Americana? : the U.S. exercise of hard power in East Asia and Latin America / Robert Paarlberg -- 3. A rise of regionalist ideas in East Asia : new East Asian regionalism and Pax Americana / Young Jong Choi -- 4. Pax Americana in Latin America : the hegemony behind free trade / Pamela K. Starr -- 5. The U.S.-China peace : great power politics, spheres of influence, and the peace of East Asia / Robert S. Ross -- 6. Japan's ambition for normal statehood / Takashi Inoguchi -- 7. Brazilian foreign policy since 1990 and the Pax Americana / Monica Herz -- 8. Cuba and Pax Americana : U.S.-Cuban relations post-1990 / Jorge I. Dominguez -- 9. To have a cake and eat it too : the crisis of Pax Americana in Korea / Byung-Kook Kim