Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: External Sources of Continuity and Change -- Part One: BASELINE -- 1. Social Networks and the Power They Produce -- 2. The Postwar Political Economy of Japan -- 3. Leading a Flock of Geese -- Part Two: THE 1990S -- 4. Maintaining the Relational Status Quo -- 5. Elite Regionalization and the Protective Buffer -- 6. The Costs of Continuity -- Part Three: THE NEW MILLENNIUM -- 7. Grounding Asia's Flying Geese -- 8. Some Change . . . at Last -- Conclusion: Beyond Asia -- References -- Index.