Acknowledgments ................................................ ix
Introduction: External Sources of Continuity and Change ......... 1
Part One BASELINE
1 Social Networks and the Power They Produce .................. 13
2 The Postwar Political Economy of Japan ...................... 40
3 Leading a Flock of Geese .................................... 71
Part Two THE 1990s
4 Maintaining the Relational Status Quo ...................... 105
5 Elite Regionalization and the Protective Buffer ............ 142
6 The Costs of Continuity .................................... 175
Part Three THE NEW MILLENNIUM
7 Grounding Asia's Flying Geese .............................. 203
8 Some Change... at Last ..................................... 223
Conclusion: Beyond Asia ....................................... 246
References .................................................... 257
Index ......................................................... 285
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