Domestic politics and regional cooperation in Southeast and Northeast Asia / Etel Solingen -- Envisioning a Northeast Asian community / Haruki Wada -- Washington's policies toward North Korea and the Taiwan Strait / Tun-jen Cheng -- The two Koreas in Northeast Asia / Yong-Pyo Hong -- The transformation of Chinese foreign policy / Lowell Dittmer -- The fragility of China's regional cooperation / Edward Friedman -- State consolidation and foreign policy in Russia / Leszek Buszynski -- Mediating geopolitics, markets, and regionalism in the post-cold war relations with China / Peng Er Lam -- Transnational cooperation among NGOs in Northeast Asia / Daehoon Lee