Friends or Rivals?: The Insider's Account of U. S.-Japan Relations - Hardcover

Armacost, Michael H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 023110488X ISBN 13: 9780231104883

Verlag: Columbia University Press, 1996

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Michael Armacost, the United States ambassador to Japan until 1993, offers an insider's view of relations between the two most powerful economic forces in the economic war zone of contemporary U.S.-Japan relations.

Friends Or Rivals? offers a comprehensive analysis of Japan policy under the Bush and Clinton administrations. Here too are Armacost's predictions and suggestions for the future.

Armacost examines the promise and frustrations of interdependencies at a time when the world is changing. He chronicles American efforts to reduce a massive trade imbalance, arrange a more equitable sharing of mutual defense costs, elicit a substantial Japanese contribution to the multilateral alliance during the Gulf war, and design a global diplomatic parternship with Tokyo.

An authoritative account of U.S.-Japanese relations, Friends or Rivals? is also a provocative ambassadorial memoir. Michael Armacost reveals candidly his own perception of the power brokers he has worked with that define and continue to define the terms of U.S.-Japan relations.

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Michael H. Armacost, President of the Brookings Institution, was Ambassador to Japan (1989-1993), Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs (1984-1989), and Ambassador to the Philippines (1982-1984). He has held teaching posts at georgetown, John Hopkins, and Stanford universities, among others, and is the author of The Polotics of Weapons Innovation (Columbia), The Foreign Relations of the United States, and Reflections on U.S.-Soviet Relations.

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Friends or Rivals? describes the recent development of U.S.-Japan relations, exploring the sources of Japan's economic might and providing a comprehensive analysis of policy toward Japan under the Bush and Clinton administrations. Armacost offers unique insights into Japanese views on American politics, economics, and society, and explores fluctuating American opinions on Japan. Friends or Rivals? examines the promise and perils of interdependence at a time when the familiar landmarks of the cold war era are beginning to fade. Armacost chronicles American efforts to reduce a massive trade imbalance, arrange a more equitable sharing of mutual defense costs, elicit a substantial Japanese contribution to the multilateral alliance during the Gulf war, and design a global diplomatic partnership with Tokyo. An authoritative account of contemporary U.S.-Japan relations, Friends or Rivals? is also a provocative ambassadorial memoir, as Armacost reveals his own perceptions of the power brokers who continue to define the terms of U.S.-Japan relations.

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• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 023110488X
• ISBN 13: 9780231104883
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 271
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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