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ABSTRACT
‘Beyond the Galapagos Syndrome ’ : Mapping the Future of UK-Japan Economic Cooperation
Luke Cavanaugh (ed.), Olivia Bisbee, Owain Cooke, Kezzie Florin-Seon, Elizabeth Steel
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ABSTRACT
When then British Prime Minister Theresa May visited Abe Shinzo in August 2017, the two issued a vision statement of their two countries as ‘ global strategic partners, sharing common interests as outward-looking and free-trading island nations with a global reach, committed to the rules-based international system ’ . Taking leave from this comment, made in the contexts of two island nations with ever-changing relations with their continental relations, this paper will analyse the current and future potential economic cooperation between the UK and Japan. The paper first assesses Anglo-Japanese economic cooperation, underlining the importance of closer trade and development ties at the current moment, before going on to suggest potential avenues for this cooperation.
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