Description: This timely book offers a unique, comprehensive, and theoretical examination of cooperation and conflict, change and adaptation in United States-Japan relations in the context of the profound changes unfolding in the international system. It breaks new ground by offering astonishing new insights into Japan's new globalism and its intersection with U.S. security concerns, the interdependence of technology, the ongoing redefinition and reconceptualization of power and security, and the unfolding systemic changes in the context of hegemonic stability. In a wider sense, it also vividly underscores the political, military, and economic security interface of American and Japanese foreign policy concerns in developing countries.
Review Quotes: «Earl Conteh-Morgan's 'Japan and the United States: Global Dimensions of Economic Power' is a carefully researched book on an issue of central importance to world politics. It will certainly add to the literature.» (Alex Mintz, Texas A&M University)
«This is an important study of Japan's rise to global power and its impact on the political and economic supremacy of the United States. Conteh-Morgan provides one of the first detailed studies of the projection of Japanese economic power in the third world through aid and investment.» (Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College)
«What Professor Conteh-Morgan offers in 'Japan and the United States' is a comprehensive look not only at the relationship of these two economic giants to each other, but an analysis of their impact on the global system as a whole, a topic of compelling interest to all with a special interest in the political economy of the globe in the coming decades.» (James Lee Ray, Florida State University)
«...an excellent study of what is now the hottest topic in international political economy - the relationship between what seems to be a maturing global power (Japan) and one which seems to be on the decline (US).» (Julius E. Nyang'oro, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)