Japans Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific by Mireya Solis (English) Ha

Description: Japans Quiet Leadership by Mireya Solis Japans Quiet Leadership provides a sweeping look at Japans domestic economic and political evolution, its economic statecraft, and the array of geopolitical challenges that have triggered a gradual but substantial shift in the countrys security profile. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Why has Japan emerged from the "lost decades" unscathed from the populist wave and a far more consequential actor in the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific? In answering this question, Japans Quiet Leadership provides a sweeping look at Japans domestic economic and political evolution, its economic statecraft, and the array of geopolitical challenges that have triggered a gradual but substantial shift in the countrys security profile. This deep dive into Japans trajectory over the last three decades underscores Japans hidden strengths in its democratic resilience, social stability, and proactive diplomacy; while reckoning with the profound challenges the nation faces: depopulation, rising inequality, voter disengagement, and threats to Asias long peace. The book traces the profound currents of change coursing through the Japanese polity and its external environment; and the myriad ways in which Japans experience has become more relevant to countries coping with slow growth, adverse demographics, adjustment to economic globalization, and the emergence of a powerful and assertive China. This is a story of Japans reinvention as a network power to overcome the harsh realities of diminishing relative capabilities. In reshaping the Indo-Pacific, Tokyo deployed a robust economic strategy of trade integration and infrastructure finance; and a proactive security diplomacy cultivating new partnerships with regional and extra-regional actors and deepening the alliance with the United States. Nevertheless, acute geopolitical rifts, Japans pandemic insularity, and the securitization of international economic relations are testing Japans statecraft of connectivity. The tasks at home are no less pressing: delivering on the green, digital, and human capital transformations, avoiding the return of the politics of indecision at the helm of the nation, and fostering democratic dynamism. This book illuminates where the Japanese polity, economy, and people are heading as we move past the Abe era, and well into the 2020s and beyond. Author Biography Mireya Solís is Director of the Center for Policy Studies and Knight Chair in Japan Studies at the Brookings Institution, where she specializes in Japanese foreign economic policy, regional integration in East Asia and U.S. economic strategy in Asia. Table of Contents Introduction: Moving Past the Narrative of StagnationSection 1. GlobalizationChapter 1: Stability amid Economic GlobalizationChapter 2: Foreign Workers: Breaking Taboos, Closing BordersSection 2. EconomicsChapter 3: What Went Wrong (and Right) in the Lost Decades?Chapter 4: Enter AbenomicsChapter 5: The Quest for Revitalization: How Fares the Middle-Class Society?Section 3. Politics Chapter 6: Change and Continuity in Japanese PoliticsChapter 7: Japans Democracy in the Populist EraSection 4. GeoeconomicsChapter 8: Champion of Connectivity in a Rules-Based OrderChapter 9: The Hard Edge of Japanese Economic StatecraftSection 5. GeopoliticsChapter 10: Growing Pains of a Nascent Security RoleChapter 11: A More Capable Japan: Assessing Abes LegacyChapter 12: Taming a Hobbesian World? Japans sharper security choicesConclusion: A Network Power in a Divided World Review For years many in the foreign policy community worshipped at the altar of China. China was to be the future. However, Dr. Solis saw clearly that our future rested on alliances, chief among them, with Japan. She masterfully dissects the statecraft, economic agility and political evolution which has allowed Japan to reshape the Indo-Pacific and her role in it. As Japan had to deal with demographic change, a different security atmosphere, and declining relative capabilities not to mention pandemic, Dr. Solis effort can provide the template for other nations facing similar challenges. This should be the text book for a new generation of foreign policy thinkers. -- Richard Armitage, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and former Deputy Secretary of State Details ISBN0815740263 Author Mireya Solis Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 0815740263 ISBN-13 9780815740261 Format Hardcover UK Release Date 2023-09-01 Subtitle Reshaping the Indo-Pacific Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2023-09-01 Place of Publication Washington DC Pages 260 Imprint Brookings Institution DEWEY 320.952 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2023-08-23 Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publication Date 2023-08-24 Illustrations 22 BW Illustrations US Release Date 2023-08-24 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:143296793;

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