Japan's Evolving Foreign Policy Doctrine: From Yoshida to Miyazawa

ISBN-13: 9781349273058 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 216 str.

Bert Edstrom

Opis

During half a century after the war Japan's economy was built up from scratch to the world's number two, while its foreign policy has been described by many as passive and even verging on being non-existent. As a contrast, this study evinces how the foundations of Japan's foreign policy were laid in the early postwar period, and how postwar policies have been characterized by pervasive continuity, guided by distinct national goals and expressed in clear-cut national role conceptions.

Spis treści

List of Tables Acknowledgements A Note on Names and Transcription Introduction To Restore and Reconstruct; Yoshida Shigeru, Ashida Hitoshi, Katayama Tetsu The Prewar Leftover with a Postwar Mission; Hatoyama Ichir�e Failure of Brilliance; Kishi Nobusuke The International Cold Warrior; Ikeda Hayato The Cautious and Discreet Prime Minister; Sat�saku The Computerised Bulldozer on the International Stage; Tanaka Kakuei A Liberal Turning Realist ; Miki Takeo A Visionary Arch-conservative; Fukuda Takeo Turning the Tide; Ohira Masayoshi The Harmony Man on the Slippery Slope; Suzuki Zenk�e Symbolic Statesman; Nakasone Yasuhiro A Local Politician on the Global Stage; Takeshita Noboru Hope and Uncertainty; Kaifu Toshiki Full Circle; Miyazawa Kiichi Japan's Evolving Foreign Policy Doctrine Footnotes Bibliography Index

O autorze

BERT EDSTRÖM is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Pacific Asia Studies at Stockholm University. He is the author of Japan's Quest for a Role in the World (1988) and editor of Japan's Global Role: Implications for Sweden (1994), Japan's Foreign and Security Policies in Transition (1996) and The United Nations , Japan and Sweden: Achievements and Challenges (1998).