Armand Cleese

The Vitality of Japan: Sources of National Strength and Weakness - St Antony's Series Armand Cleese 1997 edition

Marc Notes: Co-pub. with Luxembourg Inst.for European and Intl. st. Biographical Note: Armand Cleese is Director of the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies. He was a special Counsellor to the former Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jacques Santer. He was a visiting Professor at Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Max-Planck Institut, Starnberg, at the University of Saarbrucken, as well as Lecturer at the University of Trier. He has published and edited various books on European and international affairs. He is President of the Luxembourg-Harvard Association, and has organised various academic conferences in cooperation with Harvard University. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. Table of Contents: Contributors - Acknowledgements - Introduction - PART ONE: ISSUES IN ECONOMIC STRATEGY - Japan: The Course Ahead - Kenneth S. Courtis - The Yen's Role in World Financial Diplomacy: Should We Focus on Trade Flows or Investment Flows? - David D. Hale - The Japan Problem: Economic Challenge or Strategic Threat? - Robert Gilpin - PART TWO: ISSUES IN DOMESTIC POLITICS - The Need for Reform in Japanese Politics - J. A. A. Stockwin - The Emptiness of Affluence: Vitality, Embolism and Symbiosis in the Japanese Body Politic - Gavan McCormack - Organised Dependence: Politicians and Bureaucrats in Japan - E. B. Keehn - PART THREE: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ISSUES - Japan's Contributions to International Society: The Limits Imposed by Domestic Political Structures - David Arase - Japan and America in East Asia in the Wake of the Cold War: Drift and Immobilism amidst International Upheaval - Donald C. Hellmann - Domestic Constraints and Japan's Emerging International Role - Kent E. Calder - Missions, Mechanisms and Modalities of Fledgling Cooperative Regimes in the Pacific - Takashi Inoguchi - PART FOUR: SOCIAL ISSUES - Creativity without Diversity? The Anomalous Case of the Japanese University - Ivan P Hall - Socialisation and Social Vitality: A Psychocultural Perspective - Takeyuki Tsuda and George A. De Vos - Annex: Excerpts from the Discussions at the Conference - Introductory Remarks - General Considerations - Economic Vitality - Social and Cultural Vitality - Political Vitality - Future Vitality - Index

Contributor Bio:  Cleese, Armand Armand Cleese is Director of the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies. He was a special Counsellor to the former Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jacques Santer. He was a visiting Professor at Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Max-Planck Institut, Starnberg, at the University of Saarbrucken, as well as Lecturer at the University of Trier. He has published and edited various books on European and international affairs. He is President of the Luxembourg-Harvard Association, and has organised various academic conferences in cooperation with Harvard University. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. Contributor Bio:  Stockwin, J A A J. A. A. Stockwin is Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford and Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies. Between 1964 and 1981 he taught at the Australian National University in Canberra, and he has spent several periods of research at Japanese universities. He is author of "The Japanese Socialist Party and Neutralism" (1968), editor of "Japan and Australia in the Seventies" (1972), joint author of "Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan" (1988) and translator of "The Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System," by Junji Banno (1992). Contributor Bio:  Keehn, E B Keehn is University Lecturer in Japanese Politics at the Japan Research Centre, Cambridge University. Contributor Bio:  Inoguchi, Takashi Takashi Inoguchi is one of the most prolific and frequently cited writers on Japan and international affairs living in Japan. He appears regularly on BBC, Reuters and CNN.