This collection of essays covers a wide range of events and issues of contention which have taken place at the local, regional and global levels over the last 10 years: The topics include the north Korean nuclear issue and the six-party talks; South-North Korean relations; four power relations in Northeast Asia; American foreign policy; politics of the Asia-Pacific region and East Asian regionalism; the role of the U.N.; the international political and financial orders; global issues and disasters; and universal values. The author analyzes these events and issues in the context of globalization and the growing strength and role of non-state actors and attempts to predict the future of the security environment in Northeast Asia and the international political and economic orders. He offers an optimistic view that the globalization process will eventually transform the state-centered system into a globe-centered system.

본서는 과거 10년 동안 발생한 국제사태와 논쟁의 대상이 된 문제들, 즉 북핵문제, 6자회담, 남북한 관계, 4강관계, 미국 외교정책, 아태지역정치, 동아시아지역 지역주의, 유엔의 역할, 국제정치, 경제질서, 지구적 이슈와 재난, 범세계적 가치 등에 대해 다루고 있다. 저자는 이러한 문제들을 지구화와 비국가 조직의 역할증대의 시각에서 분석하고, 동북아의 안보환경과 세계안보, 경제질서를 예측해본다. 또한 저자는 지구화 추세로 인해 국가중심체제가 지구중심체제로 발전할 것으로 본다.

1. 21st Century Resolution: Open Nationalism
2. Korean Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
3. Taming North Korea: Eberstadt's End of North Korea
4. North Korea's ARF Application: A Watershed
5. South-North Korea Summit
6. Common Grounds of the South-North Unification Formulas
7. American Democracy as an Underdeveloped Form of Democracy
8. ASEM as a Dialogue of Civilizations
9. Is the North Korea-Russia-China Coalition Feasible?: Implications of North Korean Leader Kim Jung-il's Visit to Moscow
10. Lessons from the War against Terrorism
11. Between the War on Terrorism and the War inAfghanistan: A Dilemma for America
12. The South-North Korea-U.S. Triangle after theKim-Bush Summit
13. From Main Enemy to Main Partner
14. World Cup and World Community
15. For the Sustainable Development of Our Planet:Issues at the World Summit on SustainableDevelopment
16. Time to Review Our North Korea Policy
17. How to Deal with the North Korean Nuclear Issue
18. Challenges to President Roh's Foreign Policy
19. The World after the War in Iraq
20. Post-summit Test for the South Korea-U.S.Relationship
21. The North Korean Nuclear Issue after President Roh's Summit Diplomacy
22. Why Does South Korea Need Self-defense Ability?
23. A New Regional Order Emerging in the Asia-Pacific
24. What Is To Be Done for Peace in the 21st Century
25. Should South Korea Move Closer to China than the U.S.?
26. Time to Revisit the Korea-U.S. Alliance
27. The Koguryeo Issue and South Korea's Foreign Policy
28. America in Northeast Asia after the PresidentialElection
29. Kim Jong-il and Bush in the Second Round
30. Roh and Bush in the Second Round
31. New Year's Wishes: Ring out Global Problems and Ring in Global Values
32. Korea-U.S.-Japan Southern Alliance
33. U.S.-North Korea in a Game of Chicken
34. A Long Road to a Nuclear-Free Korea
35. Reshaping East Asia: East Asia Summits
36. Three C's of the APEC Summit in Busan
37. An Emerging Security Order in Northeast Asia
38. World Cup and World Peace
39. Six Parties with Six Different Dreams
40. North Korea's Nuclear Test: How High is the U.S.Red Line?
41. The Declaration of an End to the Korean War?
42. Where Is the World Heading in 2007?
43. Foreign Policy Guidelines for the Next President
44. Moment of Truth in the Six Party Talks
45. Many Roads to a Peace Regime on the KoreanPeninsula
46. Is APEC an Asia-Pacific U.N.?
47. A Road Map for a Peace Regime on the KoreanPeninsula: the Second South-North Korea Summit
48. New Challenges to South Korea's Security Policy
49. American Presidential Candidates' Foreign Policies and Their Implications for South Korea
50. North Korea's Verbal War on the Lee Government
51. The Korean War Legacy
52. Looking into the Japanese Colonial Legacy
53. ""Georgia, Georgia / No Peace, No Peace""
54. President Lee's Northeast Asia Strategy: HowDifferent Is It from His Predecessors'?
55. The United States as a Normal State under Obama
56. Top 10 Global News Stories vs. Top 10 GlobalIssues
57. Obama Doctrine vs. Bush Doctrine
58. U.S.-China Great Game: A New GlobalOrder Emerging?
59. The World Civic Forum: Between the WorldEconomic Forum and the World Social Forum
60. A New Asia Initiative or a New Asia-PacificInitiative?
61. Who Knows More about North Korea?
62. Korean War Veterans Armistice Day and the First Korean War Memorial in America
63. Grand Bargain: President Lee's Paradigm Shift
64. Can President Lee Straddle between Continent and Ocean?
65. Omens of the Second Decade: How Will the World Change?
66. Seeing the World through the Haitian Disaster
67. North Korea in a State of Emergency Again?
68. Global Korea: a Grand Strategy for a First Class State
69. Autistic North Korea and Lessons from the Cheonan Incident
70. Reflections on the Korean War
71. China and North Korea vs. the U.S. and South Korea
72. China and North Korea vs. the U.S. and Israel