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GEOPOLITICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

For a quarter century since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world has enjoyed an era of deepening global interdependence, characterized by the absence of the threat of great power war, spreading democracy, and declining levels of conflict and poverty. Now, much of that is at risk as the regional order in the Middle East unravels, the security architecture in Europe is again under threat, and great power tensions loom in Asia.

The Geopolitics in the 21st Century series, published under the auspices of the Order from Chaos project at Brookings, will analyze the major dynamics at play and offer ideas and strategies to guide critical countries and key leaders on how they should act to preserve and renovate the established international order to secure peace and prosperity for another generation.

DILEMMAS
OF A
TRADING NATION

JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES IN THE EVOLVING ASIA-PACIFIC ORDER

MIREYA SOLS

Brookings Institution Press

Washington, D.C.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication

Names: Sols, Mireya, author.

Title: Dilemmas of a trading nation : Japan and the United States in the evolving Asia-Pacific order / Mireya Solis.

Description: 1st edition. | Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2017. | Series: Geopolitics in the 21st century

Identifiers: LCCN 2017010291 (print) | LCCN 2017020798 (ebook) | ISBN 9780815729204 | ISBN 9780815729198 (paperback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780815729204 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: JapanCommercial policy. | United StatesCommercial policy. | Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (2016 February 4) | BISAC: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs.

Classification: LCC HF3826.5 (ebook) | LCC HF3826.5 .S66 2019 (print) | DDC 382/.30952dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017010291

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THIS IS A BOOK shaped by professional and personal transitions, and as such, it reflects a much deeper process of learning beyond its subject matter. It marked my departure from academiathe only professional environment I had known, having gone straight from graduate school to become junior faculty and eventually a tenured professor, until I joined the policy world of a think tank.