系列：阿德尔菲系列
地缘经济战略——部署经济工具以确保外交政策目标和投射权力——长期以来一直是治国方略的关键要素。近年来，鉴于中国与美国的对抗日益加剧，以及北京和华盛顿都愿意在对抗中运用经济实力，这一问题变得更加突出。鉴于日本与中国的政治关系往往十分紧张，这一趋势对日本尤其重要。中国仍是日本最大的贸易伙伴。虽然日本战后的地缘经济表现往往无法与其作为世界最大经济体之一的地位相匹配，但最近东京已经证明，地缘经济机构和效率有所提高。
在这本阿德尔菲的书中，小野幸男和罗伯特·沃德借鉴了多个学科——包括经济学、政治经济学、外交政策和安全政策——以及对关键决策者的采访，在中美大国竞争的背景下考察了日本的地缘经济实力。他们研究了日本此前的表现不佳，东京对地缘经济的理解如何演变，以及在其国力预测受到限制的情况下，日本可能采取哪些行动来成为更有效的地缘经济参与者。他们的结论不仅对所有关注日本大战略和亚太地区的人有直接的意义，而且对那些寻求在未来几十年驾驭大国竞争的中等大国也有直接的意义。
Japan’s Effectiveness as a Geo-Economic Actor: Navigating Great-power Competition
Series: The Adelphi Series
Geo-economic strategy – deploying economic instruments to secure foreign-policy aims and to project power – has long been a key element of statecraft. In recent years, it has acquired even greater salience given China’s growing antagonism with the United States and the willingness of both Beijing and Washington to wield economic power in their confrontation. This trend has particular significance for Japan given its often tense political relationship with China, which remains its largest trading partner. While Japan’s post-war geo-economic performance often failed to match its status as one of the world’s largest economies, more recently Tokyo has demonstrated increased geo-economic agency and effectiveness.
In this Adelphi book, Yuka Koshino and Robert Ward draw on multiple disciplines – including economics, political economy, foreign policy and security policy – and interviews with key policymakers to examine Japan’s geo-economic power in the context of great-power competition between the US and China. They examine Japan’s previous underperformance, how Tokyo’s understanding of geo-economics has evolved and, given constraints on its national power-projection, what actions Japan might feasibly take to become a more effective geo-economic actor. Their conclusions will be of direct interest not only for all those concerned with Japanese grand strategy and the Asia-Pacific, but also for those middle powers seeking to navigate great-power competition in the coming decades.
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