Number 2 (July 2006)

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Contents

Special Roundtable:
Economic Implications of a Fundamental Shift in North Korean Security Policy

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    Introduction
    Nicholas Eberstadt & Richard J. Ellings

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    Visualizing a North Korean "Bold Switchover": International Financial Institutions and Economic Development in the DPRK
    Bradley O. Babson

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    The Economic Implications of a North Korean Nuclear Test
    Marcus Noland

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Article

    The Political Economy of Standards Coalitions: Explaining China's Involvement in High-Tech Standards Wars
    Scott Kennedy

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Research Notes

    The PRC's Evolving Standards System: Institutions and Strategy
    Chaoyi Zhao & John M. Graham

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    International Jihad and Muslim Radicalism in Thailand? Toward an Alternative Interpretation
    Joseph Chinyong Liow

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Book Review Roundtable
Richard C. Bush's
Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait

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    (K)not Yet Untied: Comments on Richard Bush's Untying the Knot
    Allen Carlson

    Tied Up Across the Taiwan Strait
    Derek Mitchell

    A Rapidly Changing Military Balance: A National Security Perspective on Richard Bush's Untying the Knot
    Lyle Goldstein

    Gordius in the Strait: A New Taiwan and an Impatient China
    Dan Blumenthal

    Reflections on the Legal Aspects of Untying the Knot
    Mark Williams

    Did Beijing Really Misunderstand Lee Teng-Hui and Chen Shui-Bian?
    Steven M. Goldstein

    Author's Response
    Richard C. Bush

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