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Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive analysis of the ways in which changes in the geopolitical context have altered the nature of the long-stable U.S.-Japan relationship: much of what had once been a bilateral and relatively exclusive relationship has been transformed in the past two decades. The authors present eleven case studies of important domainsranging from increased flows of private capital to international security concerns to the growing importance of multilateral organizationsin which the relationship has been altered to a greater or lesser degree.
Individual chapters present new ways of understanding international financial flows, U.S.-Japan trade relations, and U.S.-Japan manufacturing rivalry. Others present very cogent synthetic analyses of the changing context of U.S.-Japan relations. Together they provide an account of the bilateral, regional, and global institutionspolitical, military, and financialthat dominate the geopolitics of U.S.-Asia relations. Although wr
Trade Review
“This book provides one of the most detailed explanations of U.S.-Japan relations and clearly presents a new way of understanding U.S.-Japan trade and security relations. The contributors to this volume have done a first-rate job in accounting for the myriads of issues that dominate the geopolitics of U.S.-Japan relations.”—Asian Affairs
“Written at a highly intelligent level, this volume is, overall, one of the most solid and thorough studies of US-Japan relations in the new context in east Asia, with specific policy suggestions for the US.”—Choice
Table of Contents
@fmct:Contents @toc4:List of Illustrations iii Acknowledgments iii Contributors iii @toc2:1. Challenges to Bilateralism: Changing Foes, Capital Flows, and Complex Forums 000 @tocca:T. J. Pempel @toc1:Part I. Strategy and Security @toc2:2. America in East Asia: Power, Markets, and Grand Strategy 000 @tocca:G. John Ikenberry @toc2:3. U.S.-Japan Security Relations--Toward Bilateralism Plus? 000 @tocca:Christopher W. Hughes and Akiko Fukushima @toc2:4. Terms of Engagement: The U.S.-Japan Alliance and the Rise of China 000 @tocca:Mike M. Mochizuki @toc2:5. American and Japanese Strategies in Asia: Dealing with ASEAN 000 @tocca:Andrew MacIntyre @toc1:Part II: Economic Flows @toc2:6. Capital Flows and Financial Markets in Asia: National, Regional, or Global? 000 @tocca:Natasha Hamilton-Hart @toc2:7. When Strong Ties Fail: U.S.-Japanese Manufacturing Rivalry in Asia 000 @tocca:Walter Hatch @toc2:8. Japan's Counterweight Strategy: U.S.-Japan Cooperation and Competition in International Finance 000 @tocca:Saori N. Katada @toc2:9. Japan and the Evolution of Regional Financial Arrangements in East Asia 000 @tocca:Jennifer A. Amyx @toc1:Part III: Multilateral Organizations @toc2:10. At Play in the Legal Realm: The WTO and the Changing Nature of U.S.-Japan Antidumping Disputes 000 @tocca:Saadia M. Pekkanen @toc2:11. Japan, the United States, and Multilateral Institution-Building in the Asia-Pacific: APEC and the ARF 000 @tocca:Kuniko Ashizawa @toc2:12. The United States and Japan in APEC's EVSL Negotiations: Regional Multilateralism and Trade 000 @tocca:Ellis S. Krauss @toc2:13. Conclusion: Beyond Bilateralism Toward Divided Dependence 000 @tocca:Ellis S. Krauss and T. J. Pempel @toc4:Notes 000 References 000 Index 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: United States Foreign relations Japan, Japan Foreign relations United States, United States Foreign relations 1989-Asia Economic conditions, Pacific Area Economic conditions, Asia Politics and government 1945-Pacific Area Politics and government, Geopolitics, International economic relations, International agencies
