The Crisis of Liberal Internationalism

Japan and the World Order

Yoichi Funabashi, G. John Ikenberry (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2020
Brookings Institution (Verlag)
978-0-8157-3767-4 (ISBN)

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Outlines today's challenges to the liberal international order, proposes a role for Japan to uphold, reform and shape the order, and examines Japan's assets as well as constraints as it seeks to play the role of a proactive stabilizer in the Asia-Pacific.

A 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Japan's challenges and opportunities in a new era of uncertainty
Henry Kissinger wrote a few years ago that Japan has been for seven decades an important anchor of Asian stability and global peace and prosperity. However, Japan has only played this anchoring role within an American-led liberal international order built from the ashes of World War II. Now that order itself is under siege, not just from illiberal forces such as China and Russia but from its very core, the United States under Donald Trump. The already evident damage to that order, and even its possible collapse, pose particular challenges for Japan, as explored in this book.
Noted experts survey the difficult position that Japan finds itself in, both abroad and at home. The weakening of the rules-based order threatens the very basis of Japan's trade-based prosperity, with the unreliability of U.S. protection leaving Japan vulnerable to an economic and technological superpower in China and at heightened risk from a nuclear North Korea. Japan's response to such challenges are complicated by controversies over constitutional revision and the dark aspects of its history that remain a source of tension with its neighbors.
The absence of virulent strains of populism have helped to provide Japan with a stable platform from which to pursue its international agenda. Yet with a rapidly aging population, widening intergenerational inequality, and high levels of public debt, the sources of Japan's stabilityits welfare state and immigration policiesare becoming increasingly difficult to sustain.
Each of the book's chapters is written by a specialist in the field, and the book benefits from interviews with more than 40 Japanese policymakers and experts, as well as a public opinion survey. The book outlines today's challenges to the liberal international order, proposes a role for Japan to uphold, reform and shape the order, and examines Japan's assets as well as constraints as it seeks to play the role of a proactive stabilizer in the Asia-Pacific.

Yoichi Funabashi is co-founder and chairman of Asia Pacific Initiative, an independent Tokyo-based think tank (formerly Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation). He was the editor-in-chief of Asahi Shimbun, Japan's foremost newspaper, from 2007 to 2010. His books include Meltdown: Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis (Brookings, forthcoming), The Peninsula Question: A Chronicle of the Second Korean Nuclear Crisis (Brookings, 2007), Alliance Adrift (Council on Foreign Relations, 1998) and Managing the Dollar: From the Plaza to the Louvre (Institute for International Economics, 1988).G. John Ikenberry is Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is one of the world's foremost experts on the liberal international order. He is the author of seven books, including Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American System (Princeton, 2011) and After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (Princeton, 2001). Ikenberry is also Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea.

Contents:
Preface, Yoichi Funabashi
Introduction Japan and the Liberal International Order, Yoichi Funabashi and G. John Ikenberry
Part I: Foreign Policy
1. Proactive Stabilizer: Japan's Role in the Asia-Pacific Security Order, Adam P. Liff
2. Follower No More?: Japan's Leadership Role as a Champion of the Liberal Trading Order, Mireya Solís
3. Reformist Status Quo Power: Japan's Approach toward International Organizations, Phillip Y. Lipscy
4. Universality to Plurality?: Values in Japanese Foreign Policy, Maiko Ichihara
5. Atoms for Alliance Challenges: Japan on the Liberal International Nuclear Order, Nobumasa Akiyama
Part II: Statecraft
6. Japan's Homogenous Welfare State: Development and Future Challenges, Akihisa Shiozaki
7. Winds, Fevers, and Floating Voters: Populism in Japan, Ken Victor Leonard Hijino
8. Japan's Incomplete Liberalism: Japan and the Historical Justice Regime, Thomas Berger
9. The Perils and Virtues of Constitutional Flexibility: Japan's Constitution and the Liberal International Order, Kenneth Mori McElwain
10. The Silent Public in a Liberal State: Challenges for Japan's Journalism in the Age of the Internet, Kaori Hayashi
11. Japan and the Liberal International Order: A Survey Experiment, Adam P. Liff and Kenneth Mori McElwain
Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.02.2019
Zusatzinfo	5 tables
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 221 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-8157-3767-X / 081573767X
ISBN-13	978-0-8157-3767-4 / 9780815737674
Zustand	Neuware