Haruhiro Fukui

Japan and the World

After a century and a half as the dominant power in Asia, Japan is once again confronting a tectonic shift in Asia’s geopolitical landscape. Nothing looms larger in Japan’s foreign policy than China’s rising power, but China’s power appears to Japan as Janus-faced: China’s economic dynamism draws in colossal quantities of Japanese investment and production, locking the two countries in closer economic interdependence than ever before and fueling Japanese economic growth. At the same time, Chinas economic growth is financing an enormous military build-up. This conference convenes a high-profile group of scholars and practitioners to consider Japan’s new geo-political environment, and to assess the domestic political process that presents policy options to the voting public.

Informal Politics in East Asia

Introduction: on the significance of informal politics Haruhiro Fukui Part I. Informal Politics under Dictatorship: 1. Informal politics among the CCP elite Lowell Dittmer 2. North Korean informal politics Samuel S. Kim 3. Informal politics of leadership succession in post-Mao China Peter N. S. Lee 4. Clientage in the PRCs National Defense R&D Sector Benjamin Ostrov 5. Formal structures, informal politics and political change in China Joseph Fewsmith 6. Informal politics in Vietnam Douglas Pike 7. Organizational involution and sociopolitical reform in China Xiaobo Lu and Lowell Dittmer 8. Psychocultural foundations of informal groups Chung-fang Yang Part II. Informal Politics under Democracy: 9. Informal politics of Japanese diet elections Haruhiro Fukui and Shigeko N. Fukai 10. The election process and informal politics in South Korea xx Soohyon Chon 11. Informal politics in Taiwan Tun-jen Cheng and Tein-cheng Chou 12. Conclusion: East Asian informal politics in comparative perspective Lowell Dittmer.

Partners or rivals?: toward a reappraisal of Japan–United States relations

Syed Javed Maswood. Japan and Protection: The Growth of Protectionist Sentiment and the Japanese Response. The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series. London and New York: Routledge; Oxford: Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, 1989. Pp. xiii, 242. List of figures, list of tables, general editors preface, acknowledgements, notes bibliography, index. A

Informal politics in East Asia

105.00, cloth. S. Javed Maswood. Japanese Defence: The Search for Political Power. Singapore: Regional Strategic Program, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1990. Pp. ix, 113. List of tables, acknowledgements, glossary, bibliography, index. US

INTRODUCTION: On the Significance of Informal Politics

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