Re-Rising Japan: Its Strategic Power in International Relations

ISBN-13: 9781433144394 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 264 str.

Hidekazu Sakai; Yoichiro Sato

Opis

Re-rising Japan: Its Strategic Power in International Relations shows up-to-date evidence that Japan is still a major power in today's international relations where interests and power of the United States and China have increasingly clashed over many issues.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - Hidekazu Sakai: Introduction: Is Japan Falling or Rerising? - Thomas S. Wilkins: Japan's New Grand Strategy: "Proactive Realism" in the Face of an "Increasingly Severe" Security Environment - Michael R. Porter: The Japan-China-U.S. Triangle: Japan's Response and Prospects for the U.S.-Japan Security Alliance - Keiko Hirata: Japanese Nationalism and Foreign Policy - Philip Streich: Japan's Civil Society: A Source of Strength - Paul Midford: Do Changes in Governing Party Lead to Changes in Foreign Policy? Evidence from Japan - Kivilcim Erkan: Contending State Identities and Japan's Policy toward the "War on Terror" in Afghanistan (2001-2010): From a "Normal State" to an "Autonomous Civilian Power" - Charly von Solms: Japanese Foreign Policy and East Asian Regionalism: Inherently Interlinked - Lindsay Black: "Private Sector Diplomacy" in Sino-Japanese Relations - Kuniko Ashizawa: Joining the New Great Game? Japan's Quest for Region Building in Central Asia - Yoichiro Sato: Conclusion: Abe's Japan-Manifestation of a Quiet Transformation in Power and Values - Selected Bibliography - Index.

O autorze

Hidekazu Sakai (Ph.D., political science, University of Hawaii) is Associate Professor of Kansai Gaidai University (Japan). His most recent publication is "The United States-Japan Security Community-Emerging Collective Identity: The Case of the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991)" in Asian Security (2016).Yoichiro Sato (Ph.D., political science, University of Hawaii) taught at the U.S. Defense Department's Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Auckland University (New Zealand), and is at the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (Japan). He co-edited United States Engagement in the Asia Pacific (2015) and The U.S.-Japan Alliance (2011).