This edited collection explores how East Asiäs painful history continues to haunt the
relationships between its countries and peoples. Through a largely social-psychological and
constructivist lens the authors examine the ways in which historical memory and unmet identity
needs generates mutual suspicion xenophobic nationalism and tensions in the bilateral and
trilateral relationships within the region. This text not only addresses some of the domestic
drivers of Japanese Chinese and South Korean foreign policy - and the implications of
increasingly autocratic rule in all three countries ¿ but also analyses the way in which new
security mechanisms and processes advancing trust confidence and reconciliation can replace
those generating mistrust antagonism and insecurity.
