Norms, interests, and power in Japanese foreign policy

This edited volume puts forth a theoretically and empirically rigorous analysis of Japanese foreign policy. Nine case studies on Japan's security, economic, and environmental policies in this volume examine how norms do or do not guide Japanese foreign policy and how they interact with interest...

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Main Authors: Sato, Yoichiro
Group Author: Hirata, Keiko
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230615809
Summary: This edited volume puts forth a theoretically and empirically rigorous analysis of Japanese foreign policy. Nine case studies on Japan's security, economic, and environmental policies in this volume examine how norms do or do not guide Japanese foreign policy and how they interact with interests and power.
"This is one of those rare collections in which all of the contributors are both fully conversant in the broader theoretical concerns of their discipline and deeply familiar with the details and specifics of the cases they write about . The cases studies and the theoretical issue that they take up are central to the understanding of contemporary Japanese foreign policy. The book is a major contribution to the field." - Lonny Carlile, Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa "Professors Sato and Hirata have assembled an impressive work that applies the cutting edge of International Relati
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2008.
Carrier Form: 288 p.
ISBN: 9781403984487
9780230615809 :
0230615805 :
CLC: D81
Contents: Preface * Power and Multilateral Idealism in Japanese Foreign Policy - Yoichiro Sato * Shared Norms in Japan's Defense Policy - Akitoshi Miyashita * Global Norms and Civil Society: New Influences on Japanese Security Policy - Keiko Hirata * Norms, Structures, and Japan's "Northern Territories" Policy - Kimie Hara * Role of Norms in Japan's Overseas Troop Dispatch Decisions - Yoichiro Sato * Empirical testing of Japan's ODA guidelines - Yoichiro Sato and Masahiko Asano * Norms in Japan's Foreign Aid Policy in the South Pacific - Sandra Tarte * Japan in Latin American Debt Relief - Saori Katad