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Japan’s new political economy: economic statecraft, techno-nationalism, green transition and dirigisme 2.0 
Convenor:
Giulio Pugliese (Oxford University - EUI)
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Chair:
Giulio Pugliese (Oxford University - EUI)
Format:
Panel
Section:
Politics and International Relations
Location:
Faculteitszaal
Sessions:
Sunday 20 August, -
Time zone: Europe/Brussels

Short Abstract:

This panel explores Japan’s new political economy, specifically why and how a centralized Kantei --under Abe and beyond-- embraced securitized development assistance, enforced a modicum of green transition, leveraged non-bureaucratic policy experts and pursued techno-nationalist goals.

Long Abstract:

The rise of China, its military and technological catch-up, as well as a shift in the dominant ideology in state-market relations, have favored Japan’s embrace of economic statecraft and its progressive securitization of techno-economic interactions. Aside from the above systemic and structural factors, this panel argues that the centralization of power in the Prime Minister’s Office under the late Abe Shinzō, and the long shadow cast by the Prime Minister on his successors, has constituted the key intervening variable that imbued various economic agendas with either a return to state-led dirigisme or a progressive securitization. The panel explores Japan’s new political economy, and the impact of the Abe government on today’s Japan, in the connectivity, green transition and technological development fields. Abe’s impact on Kishida’s Japan is, for instance, evidenced by the embrace of economic security, the securitization of development assistance and, concomitantly, the active promotion of Japanese technological products abroad. Within the contest of this new developmental state, the panel will cast a light on the growing impact of extra-bureaucratic advisors, specifically think-tanks and policy experts, on economic policy: from Abenomics to Kishidanomics.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Sunday 20 August, 2023, -
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