The Eu-Japan Partnership in the Shadow of China: The Crisis of Liberalism

ISBN-13: 9780367895013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 266 str.

Axel Berkofsky; Christopher W. Hughes; Paul Midford

Opis

This book provides readers with an in-depth analysis of the types of area of cooperation that Europe and Japan are currently engaged in, and assesses whether the extent of their joint activities is substantive enough to fill the leadership gap the liberal world order faces in the years ahead.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: now or never, Marie Söderberg, Axel Berkofsky, Christopher W. Hughes and Paul Midford Part I Political and Security Cooperation 2. The Strategic Partnership Agreement: new and better or more the same EU-Japan security cooperation? Axel Berkofsky 3. Abe’s Pro-active pacifism, values diplomacy, China, and EU-Japan political and security cooperation, Paul Midford 4. Ordinary/Civilian, not Normative/Post-modern: lessons from the EU for Japanese security policy, Paul Bacon and Hidetoshi Nakamura 5. The Japan and EU Nexus defence production cooperation: a strategically important but nascent relationship, Christopher W. Hughes 6. EU-Japan relations in the age of competitive economic governance in Asia, Maaike Okano-Heijmans and Terada Takashi Part II  Political Economy, Development, and Normative Issues 7. Taking the lead in current and future trade relationships, Patricia Nelson 8. Negative interest rate policy by the Bank of Japan from the perspective of monetary policy in Europe, Markus Heckel 9. EU and Japanese Aid and Trade: legitimising "Chinese Democrary" in ASEAN, André Asplund 10. Japan and the EU: SDGs and changing patterns of development cooperation, Marie Söderberg Part III. Reflections by the Two Superpowers 11. The Evolution of America’s implicit support of EU-Japan security relations, Jeffrey W. Hornung 12. From "Wider West" to "Strategic alliance": an Assessment of China’s influence in EU-Japan Relations, Lilei Song and Liang Gai 13. Conclusions: the way forward