21st Century Strategies of Trilateral Countries

by Zoellick, Robert B.; Sutherland, Peter D.; Owada, Hisashi

• ISBN13: 9780930503789
• ISBN10: 0930503783
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Trilateral Commission

Summary

This book is centered on essays by Robert Zoellick, Peter Sutherland, and Hisashi Owada. The United States, Zoellick writes, has "four strategic objectives that would preserve and expand the political community it sponsored after World War II. First, the United States needs to overhaul the ties with its two primary overseas partners, Western Europe and Japan, to better meet a new generation of challenges." Sutherland frames the central challenges for the European Union in terms of "maintaining the supranational core in an enlarged Union whilst contemporaneously relating Europe positively to globalization.... (A) failure to achieve internal reform will seriously hold back the EU's global role; enlargement would be put on hold, energies would be diverted to internal issues, confidence would evaporate and the EU would lose credibility and support among its citizens." Owada writes about Japan and also about "trilateralism" in the present-day international system. The basic rationale of trilateralism in this present-day system is "for the consolidation of the order based on pax consortis in an age of interdependence.... The problems can only be dealt with adequately through a mechanism of management based on shared responsibility among the major players in the system that have the will and capacity to play such a role."

Author Biography

Hisashi Owada completed a distinguished career in Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in February 1999, and is now President of the Japan Institute of International Affairs and Advisor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan.

Table of Contents

The United States	1	(25)
Robert B. Zoellick
The United States...and the World	1	(1)
The U.S. Search for International Law...and Order	2	(2)
The Creation of an International Political Community	4	(3)
U.S. Strategic Goals Today	7	(2)
Will the U.S. Public Support the Strategy?	9	(1)
The United States Security Agenda	10	(6)
The Future of NATO	12	(2)
The Future of East Asian Security	14	(2)
The United States Economic Agenda	16	(6)
Adjusting to Global Capitalism	16	(3)
Adjusting the Trading System	19	(2)
Adjusting to Aging	21	(1)
The Ongoing Search for International Law... and Order...and Political Community	22	(4)
The European Union	26	(17)
Peter D. Sutherland
A More Integrated Europe Is Required for a Leadership Role in Addressing International Challenges	26	(3)
A Credible Economic Player	29	(6)
Trade	29	(1)
Aid and Development	30	(1)
The Financial System	31	(3)
The European Economic Model	34	(1)
An Effective Foreign and Security Policy	35	(5)
CFSP: Limited Progress, Fundamental Weaknesses	35	(2)
A Slowly Developing Commitment to a Common Defense Policy	37	(3)
Europe's External Role Dependent on Successful Internal Reform	40	(3)
Trilateralism Revisited: The Need for Shared Responsibility and Its Importance for Japan	43	(17)
Hisashi Owada
The Shape of the World in the Post-Cold War Era	43	(2)
The Present State of Trilateralism	45	(3)
Japan at the Turn of the Century	48	(4)
Trilateralism in a New Setting: Pax Consortis in an Age of Interdependence	52	(2)
Policy Suggestions for the Future	54	(6)
The Composition of the Trilateral Commission	55	(1)
Relevance of East Asia	56	(1)
A Global Outlook for Trilateralism	56	(1)
The Importance of Development for World Public Order	57	(3)
21st Century Strategies of the Trilateral Countries: In Concert or Conflict?	60