Kim Japan and East Asian Integration

Trade and Domestic Politics
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-98279-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten

Reihe: Rethinking Asia and International Relations

For almost fifty years Japan pursued a single-track approach focusing trade negotiation efforts exclusively on the global multilateral forum while shunning regionalism as harmful to the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs/ World Trade Organisation system. However, following the tsunami disaster of March 2011 and widespread economic downturn Tokyo has engaged much more actively in pursuing bilateral Free-Trade Agreements (FTAs).

This book explores the turnaround in Japanese strategy and trade policy. Drawing on case studies and including interviews with FTA policymakers within the government and key interest groups it focusses on the domestic political process of FTA and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations to investigate the cause of the policy shift.

This work will prove useful to students, scholars and policymakers interested in international political economy, Japanese trade policy, East Asian regionalism and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kim, Jemma

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

The History of Japanese Trade Policy

Overview of Japanese FTAs

Research on Factors Driving and Hindering FTA Initiatives



Chapter 1 Globalization and the New Regionalism: The Interplay between Divergence and Convergence

Debates around globalization

Debates around regionalism

The interrelationship between globalization and regionalism

Conclusion



Chapter 2 Domestic Politics of Japanese FTA Policy: An Analysis of the Japan-Singapore FTA Negotiation Process

The international environment

The actors involved in the negotiation process and their composition

The Japan-Singapore FTA negotiation process



Chapter 3 Domestic Politics of Japanese FTA Policy: An Analysis of the Japan–Mexico FTA Negotiation Process

Preliminary Period (November 1998–June 2001)

First Half Period (September 2001 Joint Study Start–October 2003 Negotiation Crisis)

Latter Period (December 2003–March 2004)

Convergence Period (March 2004 Substantial Agreement–April 2005)

Conclusion



Chapter 4 East Asian Integration and Domestic Politics: The Case of South Korea

South Korea and FTA case studies

South Korea and the TPP

Background to South Korea Delaying TPP Participation

Conclusion



Chapter 5 Japan’s Choice: TPP Rule Setter or Follower?

Japan and the TPP

Japan’s negotiation process concerning the TPP

Promoting factors behind Japan’s TPP proposal

TPP impediments: The agricultural "sub-government"

Conclusion



Chapter 6 Conclusion: The Evolution and Implications of Japan’s FTA/TPP

Domestic Politics Approach

Japan and East Asian Integration

Japan and good governance

Toward East Asian regional integration

Über Autor(innen)

Jemma Kim is Associate Professor of the School of Global Japanese Studies at Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan. She earned her PhD in International Relations from Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University, 2008 (Double Master Degree in both Korea University and Hitotsubashi University). Her specialties are International Political Economy, FTA policy and East Asian international relations. Prior to joining Meiji University, she was Assistant Professor at the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University and COE researcher at the Department of Law in Hitotsubashi University.