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Book Reviews333 state tensions, uncertainties, and anxieties that emerged during the immediate post-Cold War period. Acharya points out that despite the region's strong tendency to become a realm of Mars, multilateralism is expanding in Southeast Asia and is making some limited but substantive headway into the entire region (pp. 2-3). Finally, he observes and maintains that the Asian states are capable of developing their own form of multilateral institutions and processes that will enable them to localize universal principles of multilateralism via the "Asia-Pacific Way" (pp. 243-44). Such a development would validate the constructivist position that anarchy is what states make of it and that the realist logic simply does not hold water in all situations. Recent events in East Asia, however, again point to the region's possible detour from the liberal path to the realist direction. China's rapid economic growth and arms modernization, its tense relations with Taiwan, Japan and the United States, the growing rivalry between Japan and China over the East China Sea, Japan's efforts to assume a greater security role in the region, and the emerging geo-economic competition between the United States and China in Southeast Asia foreshadow a back-to-the-future (realist) scenario for the region. It is still early to predict how these developments will alter the regional security landscape. Perhaps multilateralism will enable East Asian states to mitigate these adverse trends and to effect changes in regional politics without resort to war. If this will be the case, then Acharya's prognosis that multilateralism will ensure that "East Asia's future will not be Europe's past" is prescient. Renato Cruz De Castro International Studies Department De La Salle University Manila, The Philippines Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region. Edited by TJ. Pempel. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2005. Softcover: 315pp. This volume, in the words of the editor's excellent introduction, addresses an "overarching ambiguity [which] characterizes East Asia". The region has more than a century of "... internal divisiveness, war, and conflict", and "several nettlesome territorial disputes". It is observed that the region is not as integrated as Western Europe, the 334Book Reviews Gulf States, Central America and the southern cone of Latin America (though the comparison with the latter does depend on which integration indicators are employed). East Asian nations are often better connected across the Pacific than they are with each other. Nevertheless, "despite the overwhelming structural impediments to integration", East Asia is becoming increasingly "interdependent, connected and cohesive". Hence the authors are concerned with the "remapping" of East Asia, not in the sense of defining its outer boundaries, but rather with the "additional lines of cooperation" across the region. There are three principal drivers of this process — governments, corporations and "ad hoc problem-oriented bodies" — from two interrelated directions, regionalism and regionalization. Organizationally, there are three main sections in the book. The first looks at regionalism in comparative perspective and features chapters on East Asian regional institutions (by Etel Solingen) and its demographic futures (by Geoffrey McNicoll). Next, two drivers of integration are analysed. The chapters on states look at the decline of the Japan-led model in the region (Andrew Maclntyre and Barry Naughton), and Japan and regional cooperation (Keiichi Tsunekawa). The chapters on corporations examine Japanese and Southeast Asian production and business networks (Dennis Tachiki and Natasha Hamilton-Hart respectively). Finally, section three investigates the three Fs in regional linkages: institutions, interests and identities, with chapters by Paul Evans (policy networks), environmental regionalism (Laura Campbell) and terrorism (David Leheny). The editor sums up with an extensive, forward-looking conclusion. In such a diverse and rich collection of papers, it is impossible to do justice to all the contributions. In this review, I will single out three which caught this reviewer's eye. Geoffrey McNicoll provides a typically stimulating and broad-ranging assessment of demographic issues. He reminds us that economic and demographic relativities within a region do matter. "A region in which a single state has uncontested dominance would seem to have much less need for laborious development of a regional architecture". For example, the major power can set the rules for cooperation; a...

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