Norms, interests, and power in Japanese foreign policy /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Yoichiro Sato and Keiko Hirata.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
viii, 279 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
22 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-271) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction: constructivism, rationalism and the study of norms in Japanese foreign policy / Yoichiro Sato and Keiko Hirata -- Security and diplomatic policy -- Where do norms come from? Fundations of Japan's postwar pacifists / Akitoshi Miyashita -- International norms and civil society: new influences on Japanese security policy / Keiko Hirata -- Norms, structures, and Japan's "Northern territories" policy / Kimie Hara -- Three norms of collective defense and Japan's overseas troop dispatches / Yoichiro Sato -- International political economic issues -- Humanitarian and democratic norms in Japan's ODA distributions / Yoichiro Sato and Masahiko Asano -- Norms in Japan's foreign aid policy in the South Pacific / Sandra Tarte -- Japan in Latin America's debt management, 1982-91 / Saori Katada -- Environmental issues -- Japan's whaling politics / Keiko Hirata -- The Kyoto protocol from formulation to ratification: Japan's role in international climate negotiations / Eric Shibuya.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This edited volume puts forth a theoretically and empirically rigorous analysis of Japanese foreign policy. It explains the impact of norms on Japan's foreign policy behavior, drawing on three major paradigms of international relations scholarship - constructivism, realism, and liberalism. Through nine case studies on Japan's security economic, and environmental policies, this book examines how norms do or do not guide Japanese foreign policy and how they interact with interests and power. In doing so, this book explores whether the rationalist and constructivist schools of thought are potentially complementary or mutually exclusive."--BOOK JACKET.