...This chapter evaluates the application of the identity-intention analytical framework in the analysis of Japan's proposal to create the Asian Monetary Fund (AMF) and exclude the United States from membership. It provides an empirical account of Japan's policy change in August 1997 from supporting...

...This chapter examines why Japan proposed to create the Asian Monetary Fund in the middle of the Asian financial crisis in the 1990s while excluding the United States from membership. It analyzes the processes of identity formation to endogenize the structure of identities that later shape Japan's...

... since the mid-1980s have promoted a state-led alternative model of economic development. The book investigates what made it possible for Japan to challenge U.S.-led neoliberalism, and why Japan proposed to create the Asian Monetary Fund during the Asian financial crisis while intentionally excluding...

...This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the Japanese challenge to the neoliberal world order and its proposal to create the Asian Monetary Fund (AMF) with the exclusion of the United States from membership. It discusses the implications of the Japanese challenge for Japanese foreign...

... of Japan's economic identity—conceptions that have shaped Japan's interest in challenging the American-led neoliberal world order. With historical analysis beginning in the 1870s, the book explicates several of Japan's key foreign policy choices, including the Asian Monetary Fund decision in 1997, and draws...