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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
About the author
Mireya Solís is Director of the Center for Policy Studies and Knight Chair in Japan Studies at the Brookings Institution, where she specializes in Japanese foreign economic policy, regional integration in East Asia and U.S. economic strategy in Asia.
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.
