Böcker av Saadia M. Pekkanen

In Asian Designs, Saadia M. Pekkanen and her collaborators advance a new framework for debate and sophisticated examinations of institutional arrangements for several major issue areas in the world order-security, trade, environment, and public health.

This is a study of the ways in which law is aggressively reshaping Japan's foreign trade politics, and the forces that have come about to make this transformation possible.

Using case studies and econometric analyses, the author finds that the postwar Japanese state engaged in industrial policy mainly based on economic and not-as is assumed in mainstream political economy theories-political criteria.