Number 8 (July 2009)

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Contents

Roundtable

    Defining a Healthy Balance Across the Taiwan Strait
    Robert G. Sutter, Jianwei Wang, J. Bruce Jacobs, Alan M. Wachman, Ji You and Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

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Articles

    Pyongyang Strikes Back: North Korean Policies of 2002–08 and Attempts to Reverse
    "De-Stalinization from Below"
    Andrei Lankov

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    Developing India’s Foreign Policy "Software"
    Daniel Markey

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    Media Relations in China’s Military: The Case of the Ministry of National Defense Information Office
    Matthew Boswell

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Book Review Roundtable

    Andrew C. Mertha’s China’s Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change
    David M. Lampton, Anna Brettell, Teh-chang Lin, Yawei Liu, Peter Ford and Andrew Mertha

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Review Essay

    To Assess the Rise of China
    Fei-Ling Wang

    A review of:
     ~Robert S. Ross and Zhu Feng, eds.,     China’s Ascent: Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics

    ~C. Fred Bergsten, Charles Freeman, Nicholas R. Lardy, and Derek J. Mitchell, China’s Rise: Challenges and Opportunities

    ~    David M. Lampton,     The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds

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Book Reviews

    Old America, New Asia?
    Ellen L. Frost
     ~A review of Kishore Mahbubani, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East

    The Separatist Conflict in Sri Lanka: Understanding the Conflict Beyond the Iron Law of Terrorism
    A.R.M. Imtiyaz
     ~A review of Asoka Bandarage, The Separatist Conflict in Sri Lanka: Terrorism, Ethnicity, Political Economy

    The End of Chinese Realpolitik?
    Yuan-Kang Wang
     ~A review of Yong Deng, China’s Struggle for Status: The Realignment of International Relations

    Twisted Tale of Telecommunications Tells Much
    Barrett L. McCormick
     ~A review of Irene S. Wu, From Iron Fist to Invisible Hand: The Uneven Path of Telecommunications Reform in China

    China on a Roll in Latin America, so Who Cares?
    William Ratliff
     ~A review of Riordan Roett and Guadalupe Paz, eds., China´s Expansion into the Western Hemisphere: Implications for Latin America and the United States

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Asia Policy:

Asia Policy is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to bridging the gap between academic research and policymaking on issues related to the Asia-Pacific.

Asia Policy publishes, in descending order of emphasis, three types of peer-reviewed essays:

(1) social scientific research articles that both use social science theories, concepts, and approaches and draw clear and concise policy implications on issues of import to the region

(2) research notes that present, in a well-organized format, new, important, and even exploratory conceptual frameworks or descriptive information of use to policymakers, especially on topics that have traditionally been underrepresented in the literature

(3) policy analyses that present original, persuasive, analytically rigorous, and clear and concise research-based argumentation on crucial policy matters