Japan Is the Only G-7 Leader That Still Faces the World (Joshua W. Walker, Hidetoshi Azuma, The National Interest)

The outcome of the British referendum favoring the island nation’s historic return to isolationism epitomized the growing trend recently afflicting the West: introversion. Introversion is now eroding internationalism, with which the West has led the world since 1945 through such cooperative frameworks as the Group of Seven. The upshot is the West’s emerging fragmentation that stands to be only divided and potentially conquered by the global force of revisionism led by Russia and China.

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/japan-the-only-g-7-leader-still-faces-the-world-16997

The Rise of the Abe Doctrine (Joshua W. Walker, Hidetoshi Azuma, The National Interest)

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-rise-the-abe-doctrine-15072