Japan and Asia’s Contested Order: The Interplay of Security, Economics, and Identity

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This book brings together up-to-date research from prominent international scholars in a collaborative exploration of the Japan’s efforts to shape Asia’s rapidly shifting regional order. Pulled between an increasingly inward-looking America whose security support remains critical and a rising and more militarily assertive China with whom Japan retains deep economic interdependence, Japanese leaders are consistently maneuvering to ensure the country’s regional interests. Nuclear and missile threats from North Korea and historically problematic relations with South Korea further complicate Japanese endeavors. So too do the shifting winds of Japanese domestic politics, economics and identity. The authors weave these complex threads together to offer a nuanced portrait of both Japan and the region. Scholars, observers of politics, and policymakers will find this a timely and useful collection. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction (Yul Sohn)....Pages 3-15 Conceptualizing the Economic-Security-Identity Nexus in East Asia’s Regional Order (Evelyn Goh)....Pages 17-37 Post-Cold War Order in the Asia-Pacific: Equilibrium and Its Challenges (T. J. Pempel)....Pages 39-62 Front Matter ....Pages 63-63 To Dream an Impossible Dream: China’s Visions of Regional Order and the Implications for Japan (Xiaoyu Pu)....Pages 65-84 Spying, Subversion, and Great Power Identity Conflict Between the United States and China (John Delury)....Pages 85-107 North Korean Identity as a Challenge to East Asia’s Regional Order (Leif-Eric Easley)....Pages 109-144 Front Matter ....Pages 145-145 One-Hand Clapping: Japanese Nationalism in the Abe Era (Jeff Kingston)....Pages 147-163 Confronting History and Security Through Territorial Claims (Alexis Dudden)....Pages 165-176 Japan’s Security Policy and East Asia (Yuichi Hosoya)....Pages 177-190 Front Matter ....Pages 191-191 Japan: Working to Shape the Regional Order (T. J. Pempel)....Pages 193-220 Japan-China Relations and the Changing East Asian Regional Order (Ming Wan)....Pages 221-237 Japan and the Identity Politics of East Asian Maritime Disputes (Min Gyo Koo)....Pages 239-259 Japan and South Korea: The Identity-Security-Economy Nexus in a Turbulent Relationship (Yul Sohn)....Pages 261-277 Japan and Northeast Asian Regionalism: Overcoming Political Animosity for Economic Integration (Takashi Terada)....Pages 279-301 Conclusion (T. J. Pempel)....Pages 303-315 Back Matter ....Pages 317-335