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Geo-Politics in Northeast Asia focuses on the dynamics of Northeast Asia as a region. The chapters in this book offer a nuanced approach for understanding the geo-politics of this strategically critical area of the world. Focusing on China, Japan, Russia, and the Koreas, as well as the involvement of the United States, the contributors to the volume offer a timely and critical analysis of Northeast Asia. They collectively emphasize the different scales at which the region holds significance, and particularly note how the region is often granted significance by local political forces as well as national interests. Borderlands and sub-regions are especially important in this perspective, and the contributors show both how regionalism influences the people living in these areas and how they in turn shape the political priorities of states. At the same time, the worsening of relations between Japan and the Koreas and the increasing assertiveness of both China and Russia make it essential to understand the dynamics of the region, as well as how they have changed during and following the Trump era.

Geo-Politics in Northeast Asia focuses on the dynamics of Northeast Asia as a region. The chapters in this book offer a nuanced approach for understanding the geo-politics of this strategically critical area of the world. Focusing on China, Japan, Russia, and the Koreas, as well as the involvement of the United States, the contributors to the volume offer a timely and critical analysis of Northeast Asia. They collectively emphasize the different scales at which the region holds significance, and particularly note how the region is often granted significance by local political forces as well as national interests. Borderlands and sub-regions are especially important in this perspective, and the contributors show both how regionalism influences the people living in these areas and how they in turn shape the political priorities of states. At the same time, the worsening of relations between Japan and the Koreas and the increasing assertiveness of both China and Russia make it essential to understand the dynamics of the region, as well as how they have changed during and following the Trump era. Geo-Politics in Northeast Asia is essential reading for students and scholars of Political Geography, International Relations and Strategic Studies, as well as for those with a research focus on Northeast Asia, or the wider Asia-Pacific and Indo-Pacific regions.

Laboratory groups attempted to reach consensus on a simulated business problem. Members of 4-person groups received information on whether three proposed systems met each of IO desired criteria. Cast as a hidden profile problem, the information was distributed unevenly within the group. Groups communicated using one ofthreeformats:face-to-face, teleconference, or electronic chat. As predicted, cognitive workload was significantly higher andfewer correct decisions were obtained in the electronic chat condition versus the other twoformats. The electronic chat medium limited participants' ability to coordinate and verify information. Electronic chat should be combined with collaboration technology or groupware that facilitates information storage, organization, and processing.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Geography and Borderlands Theory: Framing the Region -- 1 Illuminating Edges -- 2 On Asian Borders -- 3 Regions within the Yalu-Tumen Border Space -- Part II Towards a Methodology of Sino-Korean Border Studies -- 4 Unification in Action? -- 5 Ethnography and Borderlands -- 6 Measuring North Korea's Economic Relationships -- 7 Ink and Ashes -- Part III Histories of the Sino-Korean Border Region -- 8 Revisiting the Forgotten Border Gate -- 9 'Utopian Speak' -- 10 The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Region 1990 -- Part IV Contemporary Borderland Economics -- 11 Change on the Edges -- 12 Tumen Triangle Tribulations -- 13 Purges and Peripheries -- 14 From Periphery to Centre -- Part V Human Rights and Identity in the Borderland and Beyond -- 15 Land of Promise or Peril? -- 16 Celebrity Defectors -- 17 North Korean Border-Crossers -- 18 The Limits of Koreanness -- Afterword -- Index