The North Pacific Triangle : the United States, Japan, and Canada at the century's end

The emergence of a significant new partnership involving Canada, Japan, and the United States has been largely ignored by students of international relations and Canadian foreign policy. This collection, written by scholars and policymakers from the countries involved, explores the evolving alliance and illustrates its growing strength in a collective global leadership. The papers examine the three market-oriented democracies in their changing roles toward each other and show how they have moved beyond their separate, special, bilateral relationships into a dynamic three-way engagement. Their intersections in trade, investment, business negotiations, peacekeeping, and environmental affairs are analyzed from a range of perspectives, including political science, management studies, economics, geography, and history. A powerful view unfolds: in the context of a rapidly globalizing economic system, this new triumvirate can only continue to strengthen and flourish, adding its influence to the creation of a new world order. Contents 5 Tables 8 Figures 10 Contributors 11 Preface 15 Introduction 17 1. The New North Pacific Triangle 19 I. The Economic and Business Relationship 33 2. The ‘Nixon Shokku’ Revisited: Japanese and Canadian Foreign Economic Policies Compared 33 3. Managing Macroeconomic Relations with the United States: Japanese and Canadian Experiences 52 4. Japanese-American Trade Negotiations: The Structural Impediments Initiative 76 5. Japanese Direct Investment in Canada: Patterns and Prospects 101 6. Japan’s Post-Bubble Economic Changes: Implications for the United States and Canada 122 7. Business Negotiations: Comparing the U.S.-Japan and Canada-Japan Experiences 156 II. The Political and Security Relationship 183 8. Cooperative Security in the North Pacific 183 9. The Future of the U.S.-Japan Security Relationship: A Canadian Perspective 201 10. Japanese and Canadian Peacekeeping Participation: The American Dimension 212 11. Environmental Issues: A New International Agenda and Related Domestic Experience 225 III. Managing the New Relationship 253 12. Managing Canada-Japan Relations 253 13. Canada-Japan Forum 2000: A Novel Exercise in Diplomacy 267 14. In the Spirit of Nitobe and Norman: Circularity in Japanese and Canadian Approaches to Regional Institution Building 293 15. The Emerging Pacific Partnership: Japan, Canada, and the United States at the G-7 Summit 308 Abbreviations 331 Bibliography 335 Index 375 This collection of essays, written by scholars and policymakers from Canada, Japan and the United States, explores their countries' evolving alliance and illustrates the growing strength in its collective global leadership. Edited By Michael Fry, John Kirton, And Mitsuru Kurosawa. Based On A Conference Held In Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 1993. Includes Bibliographical References: P. [319]-357) And Index.