Hearty congratulations to Dr. Mireya Solís, Director, Center for Asia Policy Studies, the Brookings Institution. Her book, Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific was among the top picks for Foreign Affairs’ best books of 2024.
Dr. Solís has long been an active member of the Japan Foundation network which includes being an inaugural JFIPP Research Fellowship Fellow, a current advisory committee member and Cohort 1 participant of the “U.S.-Japan Network for the Future” (2010-2012), and a 2004 Abe Fellow. The Japan Foundation provided partial funding for the research project that inspired her book.
You can see her NYC conversation with Dr. Gerald Curtis, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Columbia University, on JF’s YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/OuobxUpOpCk
And you can see her Tokyo conversation with Mr. Yoichi Funabashi, Chairman of the Global Council, International House of Japan, and Kazuto Suzuki, Director, Institute of Geo-Economics on JF’s YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NzVPk2Bqac
About the book: “This deep dive into Japan’s trajectory over the last three decades underscores Japan’s hidden strengths in its democratic resilience, social stability, and proactive diplomacy; while reckoning with the profound challenges the nation faces: depopulation, rising inequality, voter disengagement, and threats to Asia’s long peace.”
