The Japanese challenge to the American neoliberal world order : identity, meaning, and foreign policy

The first academic publication to explicitly link capitalism to Japan's particular foreign economic policy choices, this book offers a historically informed account of the nature and evolution of the Japanese challenge to neoliberalism. Central to this book's analysis are the historically and socially constructed Japanese conceptions of Japan's economic identity—conceptions that have shaped Japan's interest in challenging the American-led neoliberal world order. With historical analysis beginning in the 1870s, this book explicates several of Japan's key foreign policy choices, including the Asian Monetary Fund decision in 1997, and draws out the future policy implications of these choices. CONTENTS......Page 3 TABLES......Page 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 5 ABBREVIATIONS......Page 7 1 THE JAPANESE CHALLENGE TO THE AMERICAN NEOLIBERAL WORLD ORDER......Page 9 2 ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS......Page 20 3 IDENTITY AND INTENTION FRAMEWORK......Page 30 4 WHO AND WHAT IS NORMAL IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD ECONOMY? Marxism, Economic Liberalism, and Developmentalism......Page 40 5 BINARIZATION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IDENIITIES Japan and the East Asian Miracle......Page 63 6 JAPAN AND THE ASIAN MONETARY FUND ......Page 77 7 CONCLUSION After the Asian Monetary Fund ......Page 93 Notes to Chapter 1......Page 100 Notes to Chapter 2 ......Page 103 Notes to Chapter 3......Page 108 Notes to Chapter 4......Page 111 Notes to Chapter 5......Page 119 Notes to Chapter 6......Page 124 Notes to Chapter 7 ......Page 127 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 129 INDEX......Page 144 This 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.