The Future of America's Alliances in Northeast Asia Book

	Preface
	Introduction : the future of America's alliances in Northeast Asia	11
	America's Asia strategy during the Bush administration	25
	The Japan-US alliance in evolution	35
	The changing American government perspectives on the missions and strategic focus of the US-Japan alliance	49
	Japanese adjustments to the security alliance with the United States : evolution of policy on the roles of the self-defence force	73
	US-Japan defense cooperation : can Japan become the great Britain of Asia? : should it?	91
	The Japan-US alliance and Japanese domestic politics : sources of change, prospects for the future	105
	Shaping change and cultivating ideas in the US-ROK alliance	121
	The United States and South Korea : an alliance adrift	147
	Challenges for the ROK-US alliance in the twenty-first century	157
	US-ROK defense cooperation	177
	Changes in the combined operations arrangement in Korea	191
	Domestic politics and the changing contours of the ROK-US alliance : the end of the status quo	199
	US-China relations and America's Pacific alliances in the post-9/11 era	221
	China and America's Northeast Asian alliances : approaches, politics, and dilemmas	237