{"product_id":"the-japanese-challenge-to-the-american-neoliberal-world-order-9780804758123","title":"The Japanese Challenge to the American Neoliberal","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers the nature and evolution of Japan's most ambitious postwar foreign policy, the Japanese challenge to the U.S.-led neoliberal world order in the politics of economic development.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The author lucidly articulates a constructivist theoretical framework to deal with questions that rationalist scholarship cannot manage to explain, particularly Japanese behavior during the Asian Financial Crisis. Clear and persuasive, with results from original interviews with principals directly involved, this work is a well-researched, valuable piece of scholarship.\" -- Rodney Bruce Hall * Oxford University *\u003cbr\u003e\"[This book] presents a historically informed account of the nature and evolution of the Japanese challenge to neoliberalism.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Economic Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This contribution...provides not only an empirically rich case study of Japan's foreign economic policy but also gives a necessary push forward to the constructivist theoretical debate . . . This is an ambitious and largely successful book.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAsian Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Distinguished by a sophisticated theoretical framework, this book offers new insights into Japanese foreign policy and economic diplomacy. It is a significant advance on standard constructivist approaches and a strong contribution to the field.\" -- Chris Hughes * University of Warwick *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an outstanding first book.\" -- Charles John Rowe * \u003ci\u003eNew Zealand Journal of Asian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book makes both theoretical\/methodological and empirical contributions, and thus should be read by both constructivists and Japanese experts . . . [It] is significant because it adds a new dimension to the scholarly debate over the role of identity in Japanese diplomacy.\" -- Hiro Katsumata * \u003ci\u003eJapanese Journal of Political Science\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Japanese Challenge to the American Neoliberal World Order\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious piece of work. In it, Young Lee seeks not only to describe and explain what he sees as the 'Japanese challenge\" to the U.S-dominated international economic order but also to issue his own challenge to the field of international relations by developing and applying a sophisticated theoretical framework.\" -- William W. Grimes * \u003ci\u003eJournal of Japanese Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Lee's book is a timely and important contribution.\" -- Brian J. McVeigh * \u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@fmhi:Contents  @toc4:List of Tables\tiii  Acknowledgments\tiii  List of Abbreviations\tiii  @toc2:1.\tThe Japanese Challenge to the American Neoliberal   World Order\t000  2.\tAlternative Explanations\t000  3.\tIdentity and Intention Framework\t000  4.\tWho and What Is Normal in the History of the World Economy?   Marxism, Economic Liberalism, and Developmentalism\t000  5.\tBinarization of Economic Development Identities: Japan and   the East Asian Miracle\t000  6.\tJapan and the Asian Monetary Fund\t000  7.\tConclusion: After the Asian Monetary Fund\t000  @toc4:Notes\t000  Select Bibliography\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405571957079,"sku":"9780804758123","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804758123.jpg?v=1730492878","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-japanese-challenge-to-the-american-neoliberal-world-order-9780804758123","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}