Northeast Asia and the World-System
Abstract There is a significant difference between politics and geo-politics. Politics is about the existential present. Geopolitics is about the structural constraints that govern, over a medium run, the interplay of the longer-term political and economic interests of the major players in the world system. Geopolitical trends are not found in the headlines. Indeed they are largely hidden from the view of the political actors. The geopolitics of the world system nonetheless shapes the short-term actions of political agents, quite often without them even being aware of it. The single most important geopolitical change at the moment is the precipitate decline of the world-systemic power of the United States. The world-system has moved from a situation of creeping multipolarity to one of undisguised multipolarity. If we are to imagine them as a singular locus of geopolitical power in the coming decades the first question that is posed is whether or not there will be some sort of reunification of the two Chin...
Constructing Regional Interests in Japan and China
An earlier version of this article was presented at the International Studies Association’s annual meeting in Portland, OR, on March 1, 2003, and at the American Political Science Association’s annual meeting in Philadelphia on August 28, 2003. Saori N. Katada is an associate professor in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California. The Japanese Economy, vol. 31, nos. 3–4, Fall 2003/Winter 2003–4, pp. 126–150. © 2004 M. E. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved. ISSN 1097–203X / 2004 $9.50 + 0.00.
On the Graph Edit Distance Cost: Properties and Applications
We model the edit distance as a function in a labeling space. A labeling space is an Euclidean space where coordinates are the edit costs. Through this model, we define a class of cost. A class of cost is a region in the labeling space that all the edit costs have the same optimal labeling. Moreover, we characterize the distance value through the labeling space. This new point of view of the edit distance gives us the opportunity of defining some interesting properties that are useful for a better understanding of the edit distance. Finally, we show the usefulness of these properties through some applications.