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Informationen zum Autor Robert M. Uriu is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of California at Irvine. Professor Uriu is a specialist in international relations and international political economy. His region of expertise is East Asia, with an emphasis on Japan, U.S.-Japan relations, and American foreign policy toward East Asia. In 1996-97 Professor Uriu served as a Director of Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. While at the NSC he was involved in policy making toward all aspects of U.S.-Japan relations. He is a two-time Fulbright scholar: in 1996 he was awarded a Fulbright Grant for Research in Japan, as well as being named an International Affairs Fellow by the Council on Foreign Relations, and his earlier research was funded by a grant from the Fulbright-Hays Commission. Professor Uriu has also been a Visiting Foreign Scholar at Keio University, the University of Tokyo, and Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Klappentext This book chronicles how a controversial set of policy assumptions about the Japanese economy, known as revisionism, rose to become the basis of the trade policy approach of the Clinton administration, and details how Japan refused to accept US trade solutions and fought to discredit revisionism. Zusammenfassung This book chronicles how a controversial set of policy assumptions about the Japanese economy, known as revisionism, rose to become the basis of the trade policy approach of the Clinton administration, and details how Japan refused to accept US trade solutions and fought to discredit revisionism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Setting the Stage: The Rise of Revisionism 1: Explaining the Framework Negotiations 2: Traditionalist Views and the Emergence of Revisionism 3: "The Japan Problem": The Coalescence of the Revisionist Paradigm The Clinton Transition: Institutionalizing Revisionist Assumptions 4: Out with the Old, In with the New 5: Implementing the New Japan Policy Contested Norms, Rejected Norms 6: Getting to No: The Evolution of Japan's Rejectionist Line 7: Negotiating the Framework: Doomed from the Start? 8: The Auto End Game: From Potential Blowup to Anticlimax 9: The Return to Balance ...
