Reconciliation is an important agenda for postwar countries. It plays a major role in
harmonizing bilateral and regional relations. Lin Ren compares reconciliations between the
Sino-Japanese and the Franco-German dyads. Each dyad shares a deep-rooted historic antagonism.
Nevertheless France and Germany reached a far deeper degree of reconciliation. Therefore this
book devotes to explore the ¿trouble-creators¿ that led to the diverse outcomes so as to
challenge taking rationality as the single micro-foundation of decision making concerning
reconciliation.
