Japan and China in the World Political Economy

Saadia M. Pekkanen is Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor, Jackson School of International Studies; and Adjunct Professor at the School of Law, University of Washington, USA.Kellee Tsai is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, USA.

• 1. Patterns of Late Development and the Origins of Late Liberalization 2. Introduction: Late Liberalizers: Comparative Perspectives on Japan and China 3. Development Revisiting the Japanese Economic Model 4. Developmental Dilemmas in China: Socialist Transition and Late Liberalization 5. Trade: The Legal Evolution of Japan’s Trade Liberalization Politics 6. The Institutional, Political, and Global Foundations of China’s Trade Liberalization 7. Investment From Iron Doors to Paper Screens? The Japanese State and Multinational Investment 8. A Catch-up Strategy? China's Policy Toward Foreign Direct Investment 9. Finance: Japanese Financial Politics: Institutional Challenges Toward and Against Liberalization 10. Supporting Sunset Industries: The Financial System in China's Economic Development 11. Technology: Japan's Technology Policies and Their Limitations 12. Chinese Technonationalism: Autonomy and Security in the World Economy

'This book provides an excellent comparative introduction to the international political economy of the two countries, particularly useful for teaching about East Asia because of its firm historical focus in each of the cases. In the one place, we get both well-rounded historical overviews of a number of major policy issues and an introduction to the current state of play' - Stephan Haggard, The China Journal, January 2008