Japan's Aggressive Legalism: Law and Foreign Trade Politics Beyond the WTO

ISBN-13 9780804758673 ISBN-10 0804758670

Publisher Inbooks

Imprint Stanford University Press Date 15 April 2008 Country USA

Paperback 448 pages

Author Pekkanen, Saadia M.

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Category International Relations International Trade Commercial Law

Condition: Very good. No highlighting. No writing. Spine excellent. Bright pages.

Description The ways in which law has interacted with concrete interests to reshape Japan's foreign trade politics at the start of the twenty-first century can best be characterized as aggressive legalism. Central to this transformation have been the beneficiaries of this ever more aggressive legalism - Japan's trade-dominant industries with visible stakes in the international economic system. Today, thanks to painstaking and concerted efforts, Japan's aggressive legalism has shifted well beyond its origins in the WTO, and is now not confined to any one multilateral, regional, or bilateral forum.Nor is its thrust limited only to the issues covered in this book, namely, anti-dumping, safeguards, intellectual property, or investment concerns in FTA diplomacy. Its target is not only the United States, but also rapidly rising new Asian competitors like China; not only foreign governments, but also foreign sectors - even down to specific companies. In the shifting landscape of global and regional realities, aggressive legalism has emerged as the single most cohesive and unquestionably legitimate attempt by Japanese actors to structure favorable outcomes in international trade.

Awards & Reviews NZ Review Destined to be a milestone for a generation of young scholars, Japan's Aggressive Legalism could be called the Japanese equivalent to I.M. Destler's classic, American Trade Politics, This work sets the record straight concerning Japan's new approaches to trade policy. --Ichiro Araki, Yokohama National University