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Reflecting on Shinzo Abe’s Legacy, Part 2: Geopolitical and Strategic Impact

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Rodger Baker
Director, Stratfor Center for Applied Geopolitics at RANE, Stratfor

Jul 18, 2022 | 21:29 GMT

Then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in New York City during the 73rd U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 25, 2018.

Then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in New York City during the 73rd U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 25, 2018.

(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may have failed in many of his domestic reform initiatives, but his conceptualization of the Indo-Pacific as a single strategic region remains a potent concept. In the second part of this two-part series on the late Japanese leader’s life and legacy, we explore the strategic context and enduring geopolitical impact of Abe’s eight-year term as prime minister. ...

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