Saori N Katada
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 732534 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Saori N Katada |
| PRENOMES | Saori N |
| SOBRENOME | Katada |
| ASSINATURA | KATADA S N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1030-4222 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 171 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Japan’s Diplomacy between the East and the West
Japan’s diplomacy has, over the course of the last 170 years, adapted to changing regional and global conditions and promoted Japan’s national objectives and domestic needs. Multiple actors are involved in Japan’s diplomacy, and these actors have used various diplomatic tactics and instruments to achieve their goals. This special issue expands the horizon of how we understand and analyse the subject. The volume consists of six full-length researc…
Developmental or Liberal? How Japan and South Korea Diffuse Hybrid Financial Market Norms
East Asian economies have become major creditors in recent decades. However, while existing studies address the macroeconomic impact on the global economy of capital flows from East Asian economies, the impact of norm and policy diffusion that accompany such flows has received relatively little attention. This article assesses the content and impact of financial market norms that are being disseminated from Japan and South Korea, the largest cred…
The Geoeconomics of Regional Currency Contest
India and Japan are the only two non-dollar issuing countries that have signed dollar-denominated bilateral swap arrangements (BSAs) with foreign central banks. These arrangements indicate that India and Japan are committed to protect their BSA partners’ financial security even at the expense of their own dollar reserves. What has motivated the two countries to make such policy choices? This article argues that India and Japan’s dollar-denominate…
Pivotal power of small states to save the international liberal economic order
Small- and medium-sized states acquire significant influence when regional and global orders are in flux, as in times of power transition. We have observed such dynamics especially since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, when the competition between two superpowers of the United States (US) and China has intensified in such a way that it affects the soundness of the liberal international economic order (LIEO). These smaller states have become inf…
Manufacturing consensus
China’s attempt to build geopolitical influence through economic instruments has become a critical facet of US-China competition. How can rising powers convince follower states to join alternative (geoeconomic) initiatives created and/or led by the rising powers, in the shadow of potential rebuke from the hegemon? This article theorizes how rising powers can use strategic narratives to ameliorate the follower states’ concerns of antagonizing the …
The Enduring Dilemma of Japan’s Uniqueness Narratives
From the Meiji Restoration (1868) to the Reiwa era (2019–) and despite its intermittent international prominence, Japan has never managed to establish either a consistent or universal narrative that would express the significance of its place in the world. Instead, Japan has been facing an enduring dilemma posed by its own uniqueness narratives. The Japanese narratives of its success as the only Asian nation that had managed to modernize and mili…
Ripe 30th anniversary special feature
The field of International Political Economy (IPE) has changed considerably since the inception of the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE).This 30th anniversary editorial reflects on how these changes have impacted the journal's publications over the past ten years.Some trends are promising.RIPE has become more gender inclusive, as the share of women authors in submissions and publications has risen.RIPE has also resisted the 'quanti…
Ripe 2022 diversity statement
Reshoring from China
This article examines the Japanese and South Korean governments' reshoring and diversification policies of supply chains especially away from China since the early 2010s, with particular attention to the measures taken under the 2020–21 pandemic. The article also explores how much Japanese and South Korean reshoring from China, a subset of foreign economic policy, counts as economic statecraft as a deliberate government attempt to achieve geopoli…
Ripe 2021 diversity statement
As part of our commitment to diversity in academic publishing, since 2021 the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE) publishes annual diversity statements providing information about RIPE’s editorial team and contributors (see Bair et al. 2021a, 2021b). \n \nWe recognise that the information thus presented provides only a very limited characterisation of diversity in our field, given significant restrictions on the data we can collect. …
Asymmetric incentives and the new politics of monetary policy
This article develops and tests a theory of asymmetric incentives to explain why politicians might be less motivated to confront deflation than inflation. Leveraging Japan as a least-likely crucial case, we analyze the conditions that lead legislators to take advantage of their power to summon central bankers for questioning. We find that even moderate inflation makes it more likely that legislators will summon central bankers compared to periods…
A Critical Node
How do developmentalist ideas emerge, and how are they transmitted and adopted? This special section explores the transnational circulation of developmentalist ideas, policies, and practices through mainland China. Taking the International Relations diffusion paradigm as our starting point, we critically engage with common conceptions of diffusion as a one-way process either within the Global North or from Global North to South. We call for both …
Institutions, Ideation, and Diffusion of Japan’s and China’s Overseas Infrastructure Promotion Policies
This article examines Japan’s (1980s-90s) and China’s (2000s-10s) overseas infrastructure promotion campaigns. We explain how developmentalism, i.e. the state’s active engagement in economic development, has given rise to these two go-global campaigns, as the governments of both countries sought to expand industrial policy outward to compensate for domestic political economic problems. We explain how Japan, the go-global forerunner, influenced Ch…
Ripe 2020 diversity statement
As part of our commitment to diversity in academic publishing, the editors of the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE) decided in 2020 to publish annually a diversity statement, providing information about RIPE’s editorial team and contributors. Bair et al. (2021) provide further information on our commitment to strengthening equality, diversity and inclusion in international political economy and in the pages of RIPE. \n \n
Strengthening Ripe’s commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion in our field
As editors of the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE), we are committed to expanding intellectual horizons and reflecting diverse perspectives to stimulate eye-opening discussions of global political and economic affairs. In delivering the journal’s mission of encouraging a global, interdisciplinary, and pluralist approach to publishing peer-reviewed excellent and innovative international political economy research, we strive to offe…
Geoeconomics, easy money, and political opportunism
China and Japan have engaged in fierce competition over infrastructure lending in East Asia, particularly since the 2010s. Under the intense focus on the geopolitical roots of this competition, the political-economic effects of this competitive statecraft on the smaller Asian countries are less discussed. At first glance, lending competition seems to benefit borrowing countries through access to more financial resources. This paper argues, howeve…
China and Japan in Pursuit of Infrastructure Investment Leadership in Asia
Powerful states often use tools of economic statecraft, such as foreign aid and other financial policy instruments, in a bid to “purchase” influence as well as establish regional leadership among their neighbors. How and why do these states undertake similar economic statecraft strategies and policies? The article examines the evolution of infrastructure financing policy of China and Japan and identifies the ever changing and, yet at the same tim…
Striving for greatness
How do leaders use external events or pressures as political levers to facilitate domestic reforms? In this article, we build a theory of aspirational politics to address this question. We show that aspirations to improve a country’s international status can help leaders justify the implementation of their preferred domestic policies. For instance, the aspiration of wanting to join prestigious international organizations or agreements creates foc…
Nihon no TPP to kōshō sanka no shinjitsu
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has been a widely discussed subject in Japanese politics since 2010 when then-Prime Minister Kan Naoto announced his interest in participating in its negotiation. Since that time, hundreds, if not thousands, of books, articles and opinion pieces have been written in Japan on the topic, mostly debating whether or not the country should be a part of the TPP (p. 1). But when it comes to rigorous an…
In pursuit of stability
Over the last 30 years, East Asia has progressed from virtually no intergovernmental arrangement in the 1980s to exclusive financial regionalism supported by strong centripetal forces in the aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis (1997–1998), but this move has not yet produced coherent regional financial architecture. This article examines the evolution of Asia's regional financial architecture of the last three decades and discusses factors tha…
The Varieties of Collective Financial Statecraft
GIVEN THEIR RISING CAPABILITIES AND similar frustrations with the existing system, the emerging economic powers of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and, since December 2010, South Africa) are bound to have an impact on global economic governance, whether individually, as in the case of China, or collectively. Many scholars and policymakers have been skeptical that this eclectic group of five, dispersed around the world and only bound by t…
Asia
Japan
On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the world’s third largest economy, was already grappling with recovery from both its own economic recession of the 1990s and the global recession following the US-driven fina…
Taming Japan’s Deflation
Interregionalism and International Relations
Trading Gains for Control
The explosive proliferation of trade forums poses fundamental questions about why states forum-shop as they pursue liberalization. We advance a novel argument linking the institutional design of international trade forums directly to domestic politics. If industrialized democratic states have to appease conflicting forces in the domestic political marketplace as economic liberalization proceeds apace, they should prioritize forums that allow them…
Theorizing the Financial Statecraft of Emerging Powers
‘Financial statecraft’, or the intentional use of credit, investment and currency levers by the incumbent governments of creditor – and sometimes debtor – states for both international economic and political advantage, has a long history, ranging from money doctors to currency wars. A neorealist, zero-sum framing of international monetary relations is not inevitable, yet casts a persistent shadow especially during periods of prospective interstat…
Geoeconomics, easy money, and political opportunism
China and Japan have engaged in fierce competition over infrastructure lending in East Asia, particularly since the 2010s. Under the intense focus on the geopolitical roots of this competition, the political-economic effects of this competitive statecraft on the smaller Asian countries are less discussed. At first glance, lending competition seems to benefit borrowing countries through access to more financial resources. This paper argues, howeve…
From a supporter to a challenger? Japan's currency leadership in dollar-dominated East Asia
The dollar dominance in East Asia has depended on its regional support. Japan's supportive policy toward the dollar, however, shifted in the late 1990s as the Japanese government began to address the region's heavy dependence on the dollar, which was regarded as one (but an important one) of the causes of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis (AFC), by promoting the use of the yen in the region and regional monetary initiatives. Despite emerging signs …
China and Japan in Pursuit of Infrastructure Investment Leadership in Asia
Powerful states often use tools of economic statecraft, such as foreign aid and other financial policy instruments, in a bid to “purchase” influence as well as establish regional leadership among their neighbors. How and why do these states undertake similar economic statecraft strategies and policies? The article examines the evolution of infrastructure financing policy of China and Japan and identifies the ever changing and, yet at the same tim…
Two aid hegemons
Institutions, Ideation, and Diffusion of Japan’s and China’s Overseas Infrastructure Promotion Policies
This article examines Japan’s (1980s-90s) and China’s (2000s-10s) overseas infrastructure promotion campaigns. We explain how developmentalism, i.e. the state’s active engagement in economic development, has given rise to these two go-global campaigns, as the governments of both countries sought to expand industrial policy outward to compensate for domestic political economic problems. We explain how Japan, the go-global forerunner, influenced Ch…
Striving for greatness
How do leaders use external events or pressures as political levers to facilitate domestic reforms? In this article, we build a theory of aspirational politics to address this question. We show that aspirations to improve a country’s international status can help leaders justify the implementation of their preferred domestic policies. For instance, the aspiration of wanting to join prestigious international organizations or agreements creates foc…
Reshoring from China
This article examines the Japanese and South Korean governments' reshoring and diversification policies of supply chains especially away from China since the early 2010s, with particular attention to the measures taken under the 2020–21 pandemic. The article also explores how much Japanese and South Korean reshoring from China, a subset of foreign economic policy, counts as economic statecraft as a deliberate government attempt to achieve geopoli…
The Varieties of Collective Financial Statecraft
GIVEN THEIR RISING CAPABILITIES AND similar frustrations with the existing system, the emerging economic powers of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and, since December 2010, South Africa) are bound to have an impact on global economic governance, whether individually, as in the case of China, or collectively. Many scholars and policymakers have been skeptical that this eclectic group of five, dispersed around the world and only bound by t…
Unlikely Pivotal States in Competitive Free Trade Agreement Diffusion
How can a state with dysfunctional trade politics spur the negotiation of major free trade agreements (FTAs)? Using the case of Japan's participation in the trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), we develop an analytical framework on FTA diffusion that takes into account multidimensional (economic, legal and political) competitive pressures, and the ability of states to act as pivots in triggering FTA cascades. We disaggregate the makeup of a pivotal s…
Seeking a place for East Asian regionalism
After the devastating experience of the Asian financial crisis more than ten years ago, East Asia launched regional economic cooperation efforts. East Asia's mixed response to the global financial crisis a decade later, however, reveals how certain impetuses that gave rise to unified efforts to regional institution building in East Asia at the time of the AFC derived, fundamentally, from the region's defensive desire as it positioned itself withi…
Governing Finance
More than a decade has passed since the East Asian economies were marred by the massive financial crisis, which some assessed as the best thing that could have happened to the region (Kristopf and WuDunn, 2000). This ‘blessing in disguise’ allegedly comes from the fact that the governments of the crisis-hit countries ‘responded by launching one of the most ambitious governance reform projects in living memory’ (p. 1). Such reform is implemented b…
Domestic sources of Japanese foreign policy activism
The conventional view in the field of international political economythat greater economic interdependence creates an incentive for active foreign policy engagement -is hard to reconcile with Japan's foreign economic policy. To explain this counterintuitive outcome, we develop a new model of domestic demand for policy activism that integrates strands of prospect theory, collective action, and interest aggregation. We argue that both the rationale…
Aid Politics and Electoral Politics
We broaden the analysis of aid flows by investigating the effects of domestic and transnational electoral politics on Japanese overseas development assistance(ODA). We also consider measures of external financial balance and Japan's importance in the international trading system. We present a method for assessing shifts in Japanese ODA policy. We find that Liberal Democratic Party popularity affects the size of the Japanese ODA budget and the way…
Strengthening Ripe’s commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion in our field
As editors of the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE), we are committed to expanding intellectual horizons and reflecting diverse perspectives to stimulate eye-opening discussions of global political and economic affairs. In delivering the journal’s mission of encouraging a global, interdisciplinary, and pluralist approach to publishing peer-reviewed excellent and innovative international political economy research, we strive to offe…
In pursuit of stability
Over the last 30 years, East Asia has progressed from virtually no intergovernmental arrangement in the 1980s to exclusive financial regionalism supported by strong centripetal forces in the aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis (1997–1998), but this move has not yet produced coherent regional financial architecture. This article examines the evolution of Asia's regional financial architecture of the last three decades and discusses factors tha…
Pivotal power of small states to save the international liberal economic order
Small- and medium-sized states acquire significant influence when regional and global orders are in flux, as in times of power transition. We have observed such dynamics especially since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, when the competition between two superpowers of the United States (US) and China has intensified in such a way that it affects the soundness of the liberal international economic order (LIEO). These smaller states have become inf…
Manufacturing consensus
China’s attempt to build geopolitical influence through economic instruments has become a critical facet of US-China competition. How can rising powers convince follower states to join alternative (geoeconomic) initiatives created and/or led by the rising powers, in the shadow of potential rebuke from the hegemon? This article theorizes how rising powers can use strategic narratives to ameliorate the follower states’ concerns of antagonizing the …
A Critical Node
How do developmentalist ideas emerge, and how are they transmitted and adopted? This special section explores the transnational circulation of developmentalist ideas, policies, and practices through mainland China. Taking the International Relations diffusion paradigm as our starting point, we critically engage with common conceptions of diffusion as a one-way process either within the Global North or from Global North to South. We call for both …
Financial Crisis Fatigue? Politics behind Japan's Post-Global Financial Crisis Economic Contraction
Despite a relatively healthy financial sector, the Japanese economy contracted 6.3% in 2009 during the global financial crisis (GFC) after the Lehman shock, the starkest drop among the OECD countries. Since then, the Japanese economy has been slow to recover, although the Japanese government has implemented multiple economic stimulus packages with a high aggregate value.By tracing the Japanese government's response to the GFC in the critical mont…
Double- and Triple-minorities in the International Relations Classroom
When a female minority professor struggles to establish authority in the classroom, the first question that comes to her mind is, “Is it me?” By surveying more than a dozen female minority professors, we reach the conclusion that those professors face a unique position and particularly demanding tasks in universities as they face challenges of systemic institutional and social underpinning of universities
Introduction Understanding East Asian Cross-Regionalism
Japan's Two-Track Aid Approach
Research Article| April 01 2002 Japan's Two-Track Aid Approach: The Forces behind Competing Triads Saori N. Katada Saori N. Katada Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (2002) 42 (2): 320–342. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2002.42.2.320 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Pe…
Japan and Asian Monetary Regionalisation
The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 left many marks in the political economy of Asia, among which is the (re)emergence of Japan's interest in taking a leadership role in defining and strengthening regional monetary cooperation. Japan's new interest stems from its perspective on the causes of, and appropriate solutions to, the Asian crisis, especially in contrast to US-IMF views and responses which directly challenged Japan's economic and ideolo…
Two aid hegemons
Aid Politics and Electoral Politics
We broaden the analysis of aid flows by investigating the effects of domestic and transnational electoral politics on Japanese overseas development assistance(ODA). We also consider measures of external financial balance and Japan's importance in the international trading system. We present a method for assessing shifts in Japanese ODA policy. We find that Liberal Democratic Party popularity affects the size of the Japanese ODA budget and the way…
The Japanese Government in Two Mexican Financial Crises
M . ' EXICO HAS SHOCKED the financial world twice in the past two decades, first by its announcement in August 1982 that it would suspend its interest payments, thus triggering the debt crisis. The second crisis came in the form of Mexico's devaluation of the peso in December 1994. In both cases, rescue packages were quickly assembled under U.S. initiative in order to maintain international financial stability.' In the 1982 crisis, the immediate …
Japan's Foreign Aid after the San Francisco Peace Treaty
The year 2001 marks the fifty-year anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Conference that concluded the U.S. occupation of Japan, and defined the future course of Japan's foreign relations with the rest of the world, particularly with Asia. During these fifty years, Japan transformed itself from a war-devastated nation of poverty and instability to the second richest economy of the world after the United States. Japan's foreign relations with Asi…
Why did Japan suspend foreign aid to China? Japan's foreign aid decision-making and sources of aid sanction
The Japanese government has suspended part of its foreign aid to China twice in the past 12 years: first in 1989 after the Tiananmen Square incident, and secondly in response to China's nuclear testing in 1995. These two foreign aid suspension cases illustrate that the Japanese government has established extension and suspension of its foreign aid as a multiple-use foreign policy tool, as the country became the top aid donor in the world in the 1…
Japan's Two-Track Aid Approach
Research Article| April 01 2002 Japan's Two-Track Aid Approach: The Forces behind Competing Triads Saori N. Katada Saori N. Katada Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (2002) 42 (2): 320–342. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2002.42.2.320 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Pe…
Japan and Asian Monetary Regionalisation
The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 left many marks in the political economy of Asia, among which is the (re)emergence of Japan's interest in taking a leadership role in defining and strengthening regional monetary cooperation. Japan's new interest stems from its perspective on the causes of, and appropriate solutions to, the Asian crisis, especially in contrast to US-IMF views and responses which directly challenged Japan's economic and ideolo…
East Asian Regionalism from the Bottom-Up
Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Takashi Shiraishi. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. 344 pp., $49.95 cloth (ISBN: 0-8014-4400-4), $24.95 paper (ISBN: 0-8014-7250-4). The regional dynamics of East Asia have become increasingly exciting for social science scholars, especially during the last 10 years—since the Asian financial crisis. Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism , e…
Trading Gains for Control
The explosive proliferation of trade forums poses fundamental questions about why states forum-shop as they pursue liberalization. We advance a novel argument linking the institutional design of international trade forums directly to domestic politics. If industrialized democratic states have to appease conflicting forces in the domestic political marketplace as economic liberalization proceeds apace, they should prioritize forums that allow them…
The Japan-Mexico FTA
Introduction To most observers, Japan and Mexico seem distant economic partners, with only a modest volume of bilateral' trade and foreign direct investment and a large geographical and cultural gulf between them. By this account, the Japanese decision to negotiate with Mexico is puzzling if not downright nonsensical. Why would Japan invest so much political capital in the negotiation of a complex free trade agreement (FTA) with a nation accounti…
Introduction Understanding East Asian Cross-Regionalism
Japan and East Asian Monetary Regionalism
Reviewed by: Japan and East Asian Monetary Regionalism: Towards a Proactive Leadership Role? Saori N. Katada (bio) Japan and East Asian Monetary Regionalism: Towards a Proactive Leadership Role? By Shigeko Hayashi. Routledge, London, 2006. xiv, 175 pages. $140.00. At the height of the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) in the summer of 1997, the Japanese government proposed creation of an Asian Monetary Fund (AMF). With an Asian membership excluding th…
Double- and Triple-minorities in the International Relations Classroom
When a female minority professor struggles to establish authority in the classroom, the first question that comes to her mind is, “Is it me?” By surveying more than a dozen female minority professors, we reach the conclusion that those professors face a unique position and particularly demanding tasks in universities as they face challenges of systemic institutional and social underpinning of universities
Governing Finance
More than a decade has passed since the East Asian economies were marred by the massive financial crisis, which some assessed as the best thing that could have happened to the region (Kristopf and WuDunn, 2000). This ‘blessing in disguise’ allegedly comes from the fact that the governments of the crisis-hit countries ‘responded by launching one of the most ambitious governance reform projects in living memory’ (p. 1). Such reform is implemented b…
From a supporter to a challenger? Japan's currency leadership in dollar-dominated East Asia
The dollar dominance in East Asia has depended on its regional support. Japan's supportive policy toward the dollar, however, shifted in the late 1990s as the Japanese government began to address the region's heavy dependence on the dollar, which was regarded as one (but an important one) of the causes of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis (AFC), by promoting the use of the yen in the region and regional monetary initiatives. Despite emerging signs …
Money Orders
Journal Article Money Orders: Ambiguous Economics, and Ubiquitous Politics Get access Jonathan Kirshner (ed.)Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2003, 319 pp.ISBN: 0801488400 (Paperback), $25.95 Saori N. Katada Saori N. Katada School of International RelationsUniversity of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Volume 9, Issue 2, May 2009, …
Domestic sources of Japanese foreign policy activism
The conventional view in the field of international political economythat greater economic interdependence creates an incentive for active foreign policy engagement -is hard to reconcile with Japan's foreign economic policy. To explain this counterintuitive outcome, we develop a new model of domestic demand for policy activism that integrates strands of prospect theory, collective action, and interest aggregation. We argue that both the rationale…
Seeking a place for East Asian regionalism
After the devastating experience of the Asian financial crisis more than ten years ago, East Asia launched regional economic cooperation efforts. East Asia's mixed response to the global financial crisis a decade later, however, reveals how certain impetuses that gave rise to unified efforts to regional institution building in East Asia at the time of the AFC derived, fundamentally, from the region's defensive desire as it positioned itself withi…
Financial Crisis Fatigue? Politics behind Japan's Post-Global Financial Crisis Economic Contraction
Despite a relatively healthy financial sector, the Japanese economy contracted 6.3% in 2009 during the global financial crisis (GFC) after the Lehman shock, the starkest drop among the OECD countries. Since then, the Japanese economy has been slow to recover, although the Japanese government has implemented multiple economic stimulus packages with a high aggregate value.By tracing the Japanese government's response to the GFC in the critical mont…
Theorizing the Financial Statecraft of Emerging Powers
‘Financial statecraft’, or the intentional use of credit, investment and currency levers by the incumbent governments of creditor – and sometimes debtor – states for both international economic and political advantage, has a long history, ranging from money doctors to currency wars. A neorealist, zero-sum framing of international monetary relations is not inevitable, yet casts a persistent shadow especially during periods of prospective interstat…
Unlikely Pivotal States in Competitive Free Trade Agreement Diffusion
How can a state with dysfunctional trade politics spur the negotiation of major free trade agreements (FTAs)? Using the case of Japan's participation in the trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), we develop an analytical framework on FTA diffusion that takes into account multidimensional (economic, legal and political) competitive pressures, and the ability of states to act as pivots in triggering FTA cascades. We disaggregate the makeup of a pivotal s…
Japan
On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the world’s third largest economy, was already grappling with recovery from both its own economic recession of the 1990s and the global recession following the US-driven fina…
Asia
Nihon no TPP to kōshō sanka no shinjitsu
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has been a widely discussed subject in Japanese politics since 2010 when then-Prime Minister Kan Naoto announced his interest in participating in its negotiation. Since that time, hundreds, if not thousands, of books, articles and opinion pieces have been written in Japan on the topic, mostly debating whether or not the country should be a part of the TPP (p. 1). But when it comes to rigorous an…
In pursuit of stability
Over the last 30 years, East Asia has progressed from virtually no intergovernmental arrangement in the 1980s to exclusive financial regionalism supported by strong centripetal forces in the aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis (1997–1998), but this move has not yet produced coherent regional financial architecture. This article examines the evolution of Asia's regional financial architecture of the last three decades and discusses factors tha…
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