Launched in 2018, this project focused on what the unfolding “crisis” of the liberal international order means for Japan, and on how Japan was responding to this change. The project was completed with the publication in January 2021 of a co-authored volume (in Japanese) entitled Will the Liberal International Order Disintegrate?: Sources of Crisis and Conditions for its Resurgence (Edited by Masatsugu Naya and SIIR, Tokyo: Keisō shobō, 2021) and by the hosting of a Book-Launch Symposium held in April 2021.

Below is the translated table of contents for the volume.

Table of Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: The Liberal International Order: A Fragile Blossom? Masatsugu NAYA and Tadashi ANNO 3
Chapter 2: The Liberal International Order: Intellectual Foundations and Sources of Crisis
Tadashi ANNO 25

PART II: The Liberal International Order and the International Public Sphere
Chapter 3: The Liberal International Order and the United Nations Yasuhiro UEKI 53
Chapter 4: A Crisis Within?: International Cooperation on Border Control and the Liberal International Order Midori OKABE 79
Chapter 5: Governance of the Northern Polar Region and Norm Development: Beyond the Illusion of Great-Power Conflict Yasuko TSURU 101
Chapter 6: The Liberal International Order and Peace-Building: The Role of Japan
Daisaku HIGASHI 123

PART III: Major States in the Liberal International Order: Domestic Processes and External Strategies
Chapter 7: Trump Administration’s China Policy: Destruction of the Liberal Order or Return to Ideological Policy? Kazuhiro MAESHIMA 149
Chapter 8: Liberal Democracy in the Chinese-Speaking World: An Analysis from the Social Imaginary Perspective Takeshi KISHIKAWA 169
Chapter 9: The Dynamics of Political Reform and Security Policy in Post-Cold War Japan
Yumi HIWATARI 193
Chapter 10: The Rise and Fall of Multilateralism in the GATT Round Negotiations
Kazutoshi SUZUKI 217

Conclusion: The Liberal International Order and Sino-US Relations Masatsugu NAYA 241
Postscript: Tadashi Anno 267