This volume examines Japanese and Korean politics from both Japanese and Korean angles, exploring why the two countries do not cooperate bilaterally or consult one another, despite their geographical closeness and a number of common features that are central to both countries' domestic politics and foreign policies.

The book is insightful for emphasizing how party politics and macroeconomic/monetary policiestwo areas that many security-focused books overlookare closely linked to bilateral interactions. The book's greatest strength is the way that it highlights Japan and South Korea's diverging strategies in facing the United States-China rivalry, and explaining this as one of the most serious sources of bilateral deadlock. (Seung Hyok Lee, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 89 (2), June, 2016)

Autorentext
Yuki Asaba, University of Niigata Prefecture, Japan Seung-chan Boo, Yonsei University, South Korea Yutaka Harada, Waseda University Takashi Inoguchi, University of Niigata Prefecture, Japan Won-Teak Kang, Seoul National University. South Korea Satoru Miyamoto, Seigakuin University, Japan Jongryn Mo, Yonsei University, South Korea Chung-In Moon. Yonsei University, South Korea, Ambassador for International Security Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Republic of Korea Cheol Hee Park, Seoul National University. South Korea Seung-won Suh, Korea University in Seoul, South Korea Kazuhiko Togo, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan

Inhalt
Introduction: Are Japan and Korea Alone and Apart Each Other?; Takashi Inoguchi? JAPANESE POLITICS 1. Abenomics and Abegeopolitics; Takashi Inoguchi 2. Expansionary Monetary Policy Revised; Yutaka Harada 3. Return to the Liberal Democratic Party Dominance?; Cheol Hee Park 4. Japanese Realignment Impacting Korean-Japanese Relations; Seung-won Suh KOREAN POLITICS 5. South Korea's 2012 Presidential Election; Wan-Taek Kang 6. Transformation of Korean Developmental Capitalism; Jongryn Mo 7. Park Geun Hye's policy toward North Korea and Beyond; Satoru Miyamoto 8. Korean Parliamentary Politics; Yuki Asaba FOREIGN POLICY: JAPAN AND KOREA 9. Japanese Foreign Policy : Abe II and Beyond; Kazuhiko Togo 10. Korean Foreign Policy: Geun-hye Park Looks at China and North Korea; Chung-In Moon and Seung-Chan Boo 11. The Korea Peninsula and Japan: Global Money Flows as Framing International Relations; Takashi Inoguchi