Clinton and Japan : the impact of revisionism on U.S. trade policy / Prof Robert M. Uriu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Uriu, Robert M., 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protectionism--Japan.

Protectionism.

Foreign trade regulation--United States.

Foreign trade regulation.

Foreign trade regulation--Japan.

United States--Commerce--Japan.

United States.

Japan--Commerce--United States.

Japan.

United States--Politics and government--1993-2001.

Japan--Politics and government--1989-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book chronicles how a controversial set of policy assumptions about the Japanese economy, known as revisionism rose to become the basis of the trade policy approach of the Clinton administration, and details how Japan refused to accept US trade solutions and fought to discredit revisionism.

Contents:

Contents; List of Interviews (selected); List of Tables and Figures; List of Abbreviations; Part I: Setting the Stage: The Rise of Revisionism; 1. Explaining the Framework Negotiations; The Importance of Policy Assumptions; From Ideas to Policy Assumptions: Revisionism Defined; 2. Traditionalist Views and the Emergence of Revisionism; Traditionalist Assumptions Defined; The Early Roots of Revisionism: The 1960's and 1970's; Revisionism in the Early 1980's: Japan's High-tech Threat; Revisionism's Early Impact: The Semiconductor Agreement

3. 'The Japan Problem': The Coalescence of the Revisionist Paradigm America's Economic Crisis; The Coalescence of Revisionist Thinking; Revisionism and the Policy Process in the Bush Administration; Part II: The Clinton Transition: Institutionalizing Revisionist Assumptions; 4. Out with the Old, In with the New; The 1992 Campaign; The New Administration's Early Months; Revising Japan Policy: The Deputies Committee; The DC Deliberations; 5. Implementing the New Japan Policy; The US Signals its New Approach; Negotiating with Japan; The Early Framework Dynamics: The American View

Part III: Contested Norms, Rejected Norms 6. Getting to No: The Evolution of Japan's Rejectionist Line; Contested International Norms; Japan's Growing Discontent with the Cooperationist Approach; The Development of Japan's Rejectionist Line; Reading Clinton's Policy: Japan Tries to Say No; Japan's Rejectionists Coalesce; 7. Negotiating the Framework: Doomed from the Start?; Japan's Diplomatic Offensive: The Managed Trade Mantra; The US Wavers; America Retreats, Japan Advances; The Hosokawa Summit Fails; 8. The Auto End Game: From Potential Blowup to Anticlimax

The Re-emergence of Traditionalist Voices The US After the Summit: Moderates Versus Hard-liners; Japan After the Summit: The Rejectionists Remain in Control; The Auto End Game: The Sanctions Decision; 9. The Return to Balance; Assessing the Framework: A Post-mortem; The Framework Aftermath: Revisionist Assumptions Undermined; Japan Policy Since 1995: The Return to Traditionalism; The Impact of New Policy Assumptions: A Recap; References; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-265) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-38311-6

0-19-157118-0

9786612383113

OCLC:

559027662