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Can Japan help to reshape the liberal international order?

December 13, 2019 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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From Democracy Digest:

Can Japan help defend and revive the “liberal order” – the system of guiding principles that governed conduct among western democracies after World War II – asks Paul Nadeau, an adjunct fellow with the Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

To its supporters, its demise is generally regarded as an impending disaster for global stability, and most expect that if it disappears it will be replaced by neo-authoritarian governments practicing might-makes-right power politics. Its critics, meanwhile, describe it as neither liberal nor international or even as a myth, he writes for the Tokyo Review.

Politically, Japan has not experienced the populist waves that have vexed western democracies, social unrest is almost unheard of, and the fact that it is a nonwestern liberal democracy helps to head off arguments that the liberal international order is a surrogate for Western primacy, Nadeau observes, reflecting on the Japan Institute of International Affairs’ first Tokyo Global Dialogue, held on December 2-3, 2019:

If even an apparently committed nationalist like Abe Shinzo can plant Japan’s flag on the side of liberal internationalism, there should be hope that his successors will stay the course as well. Japan and Germany are unique among G7 democracies in the sense that their leading parties still more or less resemble those that ruled during the ostensible golden age of liberal internationalism.

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