Samuels chronicles the battles among these perspectives and analyzes various attempts to mobilize popular support by political entrepreneurs who repeatedly invoked three powerfully affective themes: leadership, community, and vulnerability. Assessing reformers’ successes and failures as they used the catastrophe to push their particular agendas-and by examining the earthquake and its aftermath alongside prior disasters in Japan, China, and the United States-Samuels outlines Japan’s rhetoric of crisis and shows how it has come to define post-3.11 politics and public policy.
本書はこの大震災が日本に与えた影響について米国屈指の知日派が探求した著作である。現地調査とインタビュー、文献研究をもとに著者は、国家安全保障、エネルギー、地方自治という三つの切り口から震災後の政治の深層に迫る。あの時、何が語られ、何が変わったのか。何を教訓とし、これからどこに向かうのか――。圧倒的な情報量、明瞭な枠組み、歴史検証と国際比較を手がかりに、包括的視座で3.11のインパクトを解き明かす。
Samuels chronicles the battles among these perspectives and analyzes various attempts to mobilize popular support by political entrepreneurs who repeatedly invoked three powerfully affective themes: leadership, community, and vulnerability. Assessing reformers’ successes and failures as they used the catastrophe to push their particular agendas-and by examining the earthquake and its aftermath alongside prior disasters in Japan, China, and the United States-Samuels outlines Japan’s rhetoric of crisis and shows how it has come to define post-3.11 politics and public policy.