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For several centuries, international relations has been primarily the purview of nation-states. But in a world growing smaller, with a globalizing system increasing in complexity by the day, the nation-state paradigm is not as dominant as it once was. In Asia in Washington, Kent Calder examines the concept of "global city" in the context of international affairs.

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Why does Japan, with its efficiency-oriented technocracy, periodically adopt welfare-oriented, economically inefficient domestic policies This book shows that Japanese policymakers respond to threats to the ruling party's preeminence by extending income compensation, entitlements, and subsidies with market-oriented retrenchment.

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Shows how and why cities are re-asserting their historic role at the forefront of international economic and political life. The book focuses on fifteen major cities across Europe, Asia, and the United States, including New York, London, Tokyo, Brussels, Seoul, Geneva, and Hong Kong, not to mention Beijing and Washington, D.C.

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Nearly everyone knows that Singapore has one of the most efficient governments and competitive advanced economies in the world. But can this unique city-state serve as a model for other advanced economies as well as for the emerging world Respected East Asia expert Kent Calder provides clear answers to this intriguing question in his new, groundbreaking book.

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Was Japan's economic miracle generated primarily by the Japanese state or by the nation's dynamic private sector In addressing this question, this study offers a distinctive reinterpretation of Japanese government-business relations.

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The overseas basing of troops has been a central pillar of American military strategy since World War II - and a controversial one. This book provides a historical and comparative context needed to understand what is at stake in overseas basing. It gives case studies of American bases in Japan, Italy, Turkey, the Philippines, and Spain.