Japan's Relations with North Korea and the Recalibration of Risk

ISBN-13: 9781138069336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 196 str.

Ra Mason

Opis

This book examines the role of risk in international relations, including its interactive relationship with domestic civil society, from the case study perspective of Japan’s post-Cold War framing of and responses to North Korea (DPRK). Specifically, it focuses on how agency operates within processes of risk recalibration identified with actors such as policy makers, mass media, and civil society stakeholders in reaction to North Korean missile and nuclear tests – as well as their influences upon other related issues.

Spis treści

Introduction 1 .Undertanding Risk in Japan's International Relations 2. Japan and the DPRK After the Cold War: A New Risk? 3. Build-up and Response to the Taepodong 4. Spy Boats and Summits: Diversifying Risks 5. Risk Conflation: Missiles and Nuclear Tests 6. Reinforced Framing: North Korea as High-risk 7. Fixed Framing: New Government Old Responses 8. Recent Events: A New Equilibrium 9. Conclusion: Mediating and Maintaining the Risks

O autorze

Ra Mason is a Senior Lecturer in Asia-Pacific Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, and Honorary Fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK.