How to Interpret the Security Situation in East Asia: Four New Books to Assist Our Understanding - Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan: From Pork to Foreign Policy. By Amy Catalinac. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xvii, 248 pp. ISBN: 9781107120495 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). - The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States. By Brad Glosserman and Scott A. Snyder. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xi, 218 pp. ISBN: 9780231171700 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). - Japanese Society and the Politics of the North Korean Threat. By Seung Hyok Lee. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. x, 182 pp. ISBN: 9781442630345 (cloth, also available as e-book). - Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China. By Sheila A. Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xviii, 361 pp. ISBN: 9780231167888 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).