David Williams

Japan

Beyond the End of History

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Produktbeschreibung

Japan: Beyond the End of History assesses Japan's significance, in fact and in theory, for the Western traditions of political philosophy and practice from Adam Smith and Hegel to the French deconstructionists and today's 'end of history' theorists. The issues covered range from the industrial policy of the founders of the Meiji state to the painful recession of the early 1990s. Francis Fukuyama has famously argued that, with the collapse of Soviet communism, the only viable system for the future is liberal-democratic capitalism in the Anglo-American mould. This would suggest that East Asian mercantilism, state-led and often authoritarian, is doomed. This book considers an alternative theory: that Japanese- style nationalist development offers a far greater challenge to Western theory and values than the fallen systems of Eastern Europe ever represented.

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Analyses the challenge that Japan's public policy presents to Western traditions of theory practice in political economy: an important discussion that confronts Fukuyama's 'end of history' thesis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 337g
• ISBN-13: 9780415096621
• ISBN-10: 0415096626
• Artikelnr.: 21171113

Autorenporträt

David Williams has taught Japanese government and political philosophy at Oxford University and is now an editorial writer for The Japan Times. He regularly comments on Japanese affairs for the Los Angeles Times.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Policymaking in an economic superpower 2 Understanding the
new Japan: Some ideological pointers PART I THE POLITICS Policymakers and
the Japanese political system 3 Why the centre holds 4 Gentlemen and
players in the policy contest; The Japanese state at work 5 Four policy
lessons from the 1980s 6 The Ministry of Finance and the Japanese miracle 7
Japanese industrial policy: The great debate 8 Politics and policies since
the bubble PART II THE PHILOSOPHY The foundations of the Japanese approach
9 A Japanese lesson: Language and nationalism 10 Japan, Germany and the
alternative tradition in modern public policy 11 Making history: Japan's
grand narrative and the policymaker; Theories and controversies 12 The
revolutionary 1980s and the rise of Japanese public policy studies 13
Yellow Athena: The Japanese model and 'The End of History' 14 Japanese
public policy as foreign policy: A post-war revolution? 15 Unblinking
politics: McCarthyism, grand theory and wild Empiricism; Coda, 16 The
receding roar: Last thoughts on the Japanese miracle