The Crisis of Liberal Internationalism: Japan and the World Order
- ISBN-10
- 0815737688
- ISBN-13
- 9780815737681
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 415
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-02-04
- Publisher
- Brookings Institution Press
- Authors
- Yoichi Funabashi, G. John Ikenberry
Description
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 stability—its welfare state and immigration policies—are 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.
Get the book
Similar books
-
A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order
By G. John IkenberryThis timely book offers the first full account of liberal internationalism’s long journey from its nineteenth-century roots to today’s fractured political moment.
-
A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order
By G. John IkenberryThis timely book offers the first full account of liberal internationalism’s long journey from its nineteenth-century roots to today’s fractured political moment.
-
Why Wilson Matters: The Origin of American Liberal Internationalism and Its Crisis Today
By Tony SmithWhy Wilson Matters renews hope that the United States might again become effectively liberal by returning to the sense of realism that Wilson espoused, one where the promotion of democracy around the world is balanced by the understanding ...
-
The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century
By G. John IkenberryHas the Iraq War discredited intervention for liberal purposes? These are key questions for the next president and they are debated here by some of our best thinkers. This book makes a fascinating read.
-
A Liberal World Order in Crisis: Choosing between Imposition and Restraint
By Georg SørensenChoosing between Imposition and Restraint Georg Sørensen. A Liberal World Order in Crisis Georg Sorensen A LIBERAL WORLD ORDER IN CRISIS A LIBERAL WORLD ORDER. Front Cover.
-
Liberal Internationalism: Theory, History, Practice
By Beate JahnThis study provides an original conception of liberalism that accounts for its internal contradictions and explains the current crisis of liberal internationalism.
-
Chaos in the Liberal Order: The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century
By Robert Jervis, Joshua Rovner, Francis J. GavinIs there a Trump doctrine, or is America’s president fundamentally impulsive and scattershot? The book considers the effects of Trump’s presidency on trends in human rights, international alliances, and regional conflicts.
-
Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order
By G. John IkenberryOthers argue that we are witnessing the end of the American era. Liberal Leviathan engages these debates. G. John Ikenberry argues that the crisis that besets the American-led order is a crisis of authority.
-
Kant and Liberal Internationalism: Sovereignty, Justice and Global Reform
By A. FranceschetThe focus on Kant's concept of justice provides insight into the contemporary evolution of liberal internationalism, connecting Kant's legacy to the post-Cold War policy agenda and the moral dilemmas that currently confront political ...
-
Contemporary Security Studies
By Alan CollinsContemporary Security Studies is a uniquely engaging introduction to Security Studies, covering the key theories and contemporary issues in the field.