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Japan's Quiet Leadership provides a sweeping look at Japan's domestic economic and political evolution, its economic statecraft, and the array of geopolitical challenges that have triggered a gradual but substantial shift in the country's security profile.
List of contents
Introduction: Moving Past the Narrative of Stagnation
Section 1. Globalization
Chapter 1: Stability amid Economic Globalization
Chapter 2: Foreign Workers: Breaking Taboos, Closing Borders
Section 2. Economics
Chapter 3: What Went Wrong (and Right) in the Lost Decades?
Chapter 4: Enter Abenomics
Chapter 5: The Quest for Revitalization: How Fares the Middle-Class Society?
Section 3. Politics
Chapter 6: Change and Continuity in Japanese Politics
Chapter 7: Japan's Democracy in the Populist Era
Section 4. Geoeconomics
Chapter 8: Champion of Connectivity in a Rules-Based Order
Chapter 9: The Hard Edge of Japanese Economic Statecraft
Section 5. Geopolitics
Chapter 10: Growing Pains of a Nascent Security Role
Chapter 11: A More Capable Japan: Assessing Abe's Legacy
Chapter 12: Taming a Hobbesian World? Japan's sharper security choices
Conclusion: A Network Power in a Divided World
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By Mireya Solis
Summary
Japan’s Quiet Leadership provides a sweeping look at Japan’s domestic economic and political evolution, its economic statecraft, and the array of geopolitical challenges that have triggered a gradual but substantial shift in the country’s security profile.
