Prof. G. John Ikenberry, a Lost Decades project member and Professor at Princeton University, gave an interview titled “Liberal international order should be strengthened to integrate rising China” in the “The Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch”.
Prof. Ikenberry analyzes in his “Ideology” chapter towards “Reviewing Japan’s Lost Decades” project Japan’s grand national visions and strategies in the fast-changing international order, especially those devised after the end of Cold War. This interview describes the rise of China and its fundamental effects on the conventional liberal international order.