Public Presentation by Dr Kristi Govella

March 2, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

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"Permeable Policymaking: Foreign Firms in the Japanese Political Economy"

How does internationalization affect the politics of trade? Can foreign firms meaningfully influence policy? Japan is an interesting place to examine these questions because it was remarkably closed to foreign investment until a sudden influx in the 1990s. While foreign firms were initially dependent on their home governments to influence Japanese policy, opportunities for these firms to act independently increased with the opening of the Japanese economy. Interestingly, the manner in which a sector opened had lasting and sometimes unexpected consequences, creating cleavages among Japanese and foreign firms in ways that shaped their interests and the trajectory of policy change. This research sheds light on the ways that internationalization can enable foreign firms to impact policy debates directly from within a host country, potentially altering the dynamics of both domestic politics and international relations.

Speaker:
Kristi Govella is an Associate Professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, specializing in Japanese politics and Asian regionalism. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley

Event Sponsor
Asian Studies Program, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Tess Constantino, (808) 956-6085, tconstan@hawaii.edu

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