Professor Andrew Yeo of the Department of Politics at CUA, a young scholar who recently published Activists, Alliances, and Anti-U.S. Base Protests (Cambridge University Press, 2011), discussed the issue of forming an East Asian community by focusing on the six party talks that are serving as a seed in the multilateral approach for a security and peace regime in Northeast Asia. According to Professor Yeo, although historical issues that are scattered throughout East Asia have a negative influence on the efforts of the nations in the region to seek cooperation, tendency toward bilateralism will continue due to institutional stratification, and, at the same time, tendency toward multilateralism will lead to progress in institutionalization and increased cooperation. However, he expects that multilateralism in Northeast Asia will be uneven and ad hoc for the time being, and therefore it will take more time for regional cooperation in East Asia to develop into an East Asian community.