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Both the European Union and Japan have been major beneficiaries and supporters of the liberal international order, first led by the United States since the end of World War II. During this period, they have emerged as global powers, however, the very order that nurtured their rise is now facing twin threats. First, through authoritarian China's promotion of alternative models of global governance, and second from a crisis of liberalism, manifested in the policies of President Donald Trump and Brexit.
This book explores these challenges faced by both the EU and Japan, providing a multidisciplinary approach to studying the relationship between the two. It analyses their cooperation in terms of security, defence and trade and examines how their shared normative values are ultimately implemented. Having recently concluded an Economic Partnership Agreement and with a Strategic Partnership Agreement in the pipeline, this book asks whether they can convert their latent and modest cooperation into an alternative form of leadership and an antidote to the illiberal tide sweeping the developed world?
As the first book to shed light on the new Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and Japan, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, as well as European Union politics and international political economy more generally.
Contents
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
