Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific

In this talk at Columbia University, Dr. Mireya Solís (Director, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Brookings Institution), discussed her latest book, Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific. She addressed the question of why and how Japan has emerged from the “lost decades” unscathed from the populist wave and a far more consequential actor in the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific. The book provides a sweeping look at Japan’s domestic economic and political evolution, its economic statecraft, and the array of geopolitical challenges that have triggered a gradual but substantial shift in the country’s security profile.
Her remarks were followed by a Q&A moderated by Dr. Gerald Curtis, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Columbia University.
Dr. Mireya Solís is Director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Phillip Knight Chair in Japan Studies, and a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. She is an expert on Japanese foreign economic policy, international trade policy, and U.S. economic statecraft in Asia. She is the author of “Dilemmas of a Trading Nation: Japan and the University States in the Evolving Asia-Pacific Order” (Brookings, Press, 2017), recipient of the 2018 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Award. She also authored “Banking on Multinationals: Public Credit and the Export of Japanese Sunset Industries” (Stanford University Press, 2004) and co-edited “Cross-Regional Trade Agreements: Understanding Permeated Regionalism in East Asia” (Springer, 2008) and “Competitive Regionalism: FTA Diffusion in the Pacific Rim” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Dr. Gerald Curtis is Director of the Japan Research Program at Columbia University, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Columbia University, Chairman of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research. He served as Director of Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a total of twelve years.
This event took place on September 27, 2023, 4:00pm - 6:00pm (EDT). Japan Foundation was pleased to collaborate with Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
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