This book presents a study of perceptions of food insecurity in East Asia, and explores how individual countries are developing strategies to deal with the situation. It also looks at how the perception of food insecurity has increasingly influenced the nature of international interactions, not just within East Asia, but also in the region's relations with major external actors. This book was published as a special issue of The Pacific Review.

1. Introduction: East Asia and food (in)security 2. Rice security in Southeast Asia: beggar thy neighbor or cooperation? 3. Food in China's international relations 4. Supermarkets, iron buffalos and agrarian myths: exploring the drivers and impediments to food systems modernisation in Southeast Asia 5. Food security, the palm oil-land conflict nexus, and sustainability: a governance role for a private multi-stakeholder regime like the RSPO? 6. Going out: China's food security from Southeast Asia 7. 'Land grabbing' or harnessing of development potential in agriculture? East Asia's land-based investments in Africa 8. Food security: global trends and regional perspective with reference to East Asia

Shaun Breslin is a Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Warwick, UK. His is co-editor of The Pacific Review.

Christopher Hughes is a Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Warwick, UK. His is co-editor of The Pacific Review.