The eventual reunification of the Korean Peninsula will send political and economic reverberations throughout Northeast Asia and will catalyze the struggle over a new regional order among the four great powers of the Pacific--Russia, China, Japan, and the United States. Korea's Future and the Great Powers addresses the vital issues of how to achieve a stable political order in a unified Korea, how to finance Korean economic reconstruction, and how to link Korea into a cooperative framework of international diplomatic relations. [more...]

Nicholas Eberstadt is the Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy at AEI. Richard J. Ellings is the president and cofounder of the National Bureau of Asian Research, Seattle.