The problem of cooperation in East Asian industrial policy -- How parties and politics shape policy objectives and organizational capacities -- Steel minimills in Japan: the limitations of cartels without effective compulsion -- Alternatives to cartels in Taiwan's minimill industry -- Standard setting and R & D consortia in Japan's video industry -- Hapless standard setting and direct provision of engineering "consortia" in Taiwan's computer industry -- Extending the political logic in time and space: Japan, Taiwan, and Korea in the 1990s.