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Japan and the As-If International Systems Strategic Performance in a Plural World
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Rethinking Order through Strategic Performance
1. Origins of the Chinese International System and Japan’s Strategic Engagement
2. Japan’s Strategic Participation in the Chinese International System
3. Japan’s As-If International System and Coexisting Orders
4. Japan’s Strategic Withdrawal from As-If International Orders
5. Japan’s Strategic Reentry into the Chinese International System
6. Japan’s Response in a Collapsing East Asian Order
7. Japan’s Strategic Agency between International Systems
8. Japan’s Path from Ambiguity to Equality: Navigating Competing International Systems
Conclusion: Strategic Performance and the Plural Foundations of International Order
Index
Biography
Kenki Adachi is Professor of International Politics at Ritsumeikan University, Japan. His works include Changing Arms Control Norms in International Society (London: Routledge, 2021), which won the 2023 International Studies Association Global IR Book Award, and The Ottawa Process: Formation Process of the Landmine Ban Regime (Tokyo: Yushindo, 2004), which won the 2004 Canadian Prime Minister Award.
"Professor Kenki Adachi has emerged as one of Japan's most creative International Relations scholars, with award-winning work to advance Global IR. This book will burnish his reputation further by offering a stimulating reevaluation of Japan's historical role in Asia and world affairs."
Amitav Acharya, American University and author of The Once and Future World Order
“This very impressive book on Japan's international relations through a historical lens offers many valuable insights for both theory and practice. It shows how international orders can form without full normative convergence and actors can comply with orders that they do not actually believe in and still maintain a reasonable level of agency. A great addition to the emerging global International relations scholarship."
T.V. Paul, Distinguished James McGill Professor, McGill University, Canada.
