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Author: Maiko Ichihara Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317351886 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 150
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Japan has increasingly emphasized democracy assistance since the mid-2000s, such that it now constitutes a major part of Japan’s foreign policy. This approach is an ostensible departure from the country’s traditional foreign policy stance, which tries to avoid bringing values to the forefront of foreign policies. This book intends to answer the questions of why Japan has started emphasizing democracy assistance and why it has relegated itself to a minor role in democracy assistance nevertheless. It argues that Japan’s emphasis on democracy assistance reveals its intention to increase its political influence with regards to China based on democratic values, and its usage of the term "democracy assistance" is a performative speech act to orchestrate a comprehensive approach for international democracy support. Shedding light on the novel aspect of Japanese policy, this book contributes to the understanding of Japanese foreign policy and democracy promotion. Providing the analysis that state’s speech act could cause to create foreign policies that counter what is predicted by structural realism, this analysis makes contributions to neoclassical realism which explains states’ foreign policy choices within the constraints of international structure.
Author: Maiko Ichihara Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317351886 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 150
Book Description
Japan has increasingly emphasized democracy assistance since the mid-2000s, such that it now constitutes a major part of Japan’s foreign policy. This approach is an ostensible departure from the country’s traditional foreign policy stance, which tries to avoid bringing values to the forefront of foreign policies. This book intends to answer the questions of why Japan has started emphasizing democracy assistance and why it has relegated itself to a minor role in democracy assistance nevertheless. It argues that Japan’s emphasis on democracy assistance reveals its intention to increase its political influence with regards to China based on democratic values, and its usage of the term "democracy assistance" is a performative speech act to orchestrate a comprehensive approach for international democracy support. Shedding light on the novel aspect of Japanese policy, this book contributes to the understanding of Japanese foreign policy and democracy promotion. Providing the analysis that state’s speech act could cause to create foreign policies that counter what is predicted by structural realism, this analysis makes contributions to neoclassical realism which explains states’ foreign policy choices within the constraints of international structure.
Author: Yasushi Watanabe Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317459652 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 329
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The term "soft power" describes a country's ability to get what it wants by attracting rather than coercing others - by engaging hearts and minds through cultural and political values and foreign policies that other countries see as legitimate and conducive to their own interests.This book analyzes the soft power assets of the United States and Japan, and how they contributed to one of the most successful, if unlikely, bilateral relationships of the twentieth century. Sponsored by the U.S. Social Science Research Council and the Japan Foundation's Center for Global Partnership, the book brings together anthropologists, political scientists, historians, economists, diplomats, and others to explore the multiple axes of soft power that operate in the U.S.-Japanese relationship, and between the United States and Japan and other regions of the world.The contributors move beyond an "either-or" concept of hard versus soft power to a more dynamic interpretation, and demonstrate the important role of non-state actors in wielding soft power. They show how public diplomacy on both sides of the Pacific - bolstered by less formal influences such as popular cultural icons, product brands, martial arts, baseball, and educational exchanges - has led to a vibrant U.S.-Japanese relationship since World War II despite formidable challenges. Emphasizing the essentially interactive nature of persuasion, the book highlights an approach to soft power that has many implications for the world today.
Author: Utpal Vyas Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136858954 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 290
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Soft power has tended to be overlooked in the field of international relations, often dismissed as lacking relevance or robustness as a theoretical concept. This book seeks to expand upon the idea of ‘soft power’ in international relations and to investigate how it actually functions by looking at three case studies in Japan-China relations during the post-war period. These cases involve the action of Japan’s soft power in China due to the activities of agents at three levels in society: the state level (an agency of the central government), the sub-state level (a local government), and at the non-state level (a non-governmental organisation). In addition, a major theme of the book is to examine the role of important international actors whose roles are not covered sufficiently in international relations discourse. Utpal Vyas demonstrates ways in which soft power is a useful analytical tool to understand relations between China and Japan in the early 2000s. The case studies help to reveal the complexities of interaction between China and Japan beyond the usual state-level analyses and offer a valuable resource for the study of Sino-Japanese relations and IR in general. This book will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students in Japanese studies, Chinese studies and International Relations.
Author: David Arase Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113523857X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 197
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Japan's use of Soft power in its international politics is as yet understudied. Soft power presents as many challenges as promises. This book explores the way Japan uses soft power in its relationship with the US, its Asian neighbours and Europe and aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of soft power in international relations. Hard power, on the other hand, is more tangible and has received far greater scholarly scrutiny than soft power. However, as this collection makes clear, hard power has its limitations and counterproductive consequences as an instrument of policy. This book makes it clear that hard power alone will not provide Japan with the peace and security it desires. A smart balancing or mixture of hard and soft power is required. Is Japan up to this challenge? While this book cannot give a definitive answer to this question, the excellent line-up of contributors present their best analyses of the effectiveness of Japan's current attempt at balancing the two components of national power in meeting its bilateral and multilateral security challenges. The US-Japan Alliance is suitable for upper undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in International Politics, Political Science, Security studies and Japanese studies. Winner of The Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Special Prize, 2011.
Author: Larry Diamond Publisher: ISBN: 9780996656764 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Recommends practical ways in which the United States and Japan can support democratic development in countries that are emerging from autocratic regimes and those that have achieved a measure of democracy, but are in danger of regressing.
Author: Jing Sun Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472028456 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 231
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In international relations today, influence is as essential as military and economic might. Consequently, leaders promote favorable images of the state in order to attract allies and win support for their policies. Jing Sun, an expert on international relations and a former journalist, refers to such soft power campaigns as "charm offensives." Sun focuses on the competition between China and Japan for the allegiance of South Korea, Taiwan, and other states in the region. He finds that, instead of adopting a one-size-fits-all approach, the Chinese and the Japanese deploy customized charm campaigns for each target state, taking into consideration the target's culture, international position, and political values. He then evaluates the effectiveness of individual campaigns from the perspective of the target state, on the basis of public opinion polls, media coverage, and the response from state leaders. A deep, comparative study, Japan and China as Charm Rivals enriches our understanding of soft power by revealing deliberate image campaign efforts and offering a method for assessing the effectiveness of such charm offensives.
Author: Frank McNeil Publisher: Crown ISBN: Category : Democracy Languages : en Pages : 296
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A veteran American diplomat with extensive experience in Japan takes a fresh look at the country's democratic tradition--its troubled past and its uncertain present. McNeil also examines alternative scenarios for Japan's future and outlines the likely outcomes. Advertising in the Washington Post.
Author: Tomoko Akami Publisher: ISBN: 9789089791207 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 422
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History of International Relations, Diplomacy and Intelligence, 22 (History of International Relations Library, 33) Using extensive archival documents and recently reprinted documents, Soft Power of Japan's Total War State, 1934-45 locates Japan's information policy as a part of its foreign policy in a global context, and concludes Japan's News Propaganda and Reuters' News Empire in Northeast Asia. Soft Power of Japan's Total War State for the first time reveals systematically how Japan's policy elites understood global trends of mass politics, technological changes, and new international norms; how they viewed 'information' as soft power in foreign policy; how they institutionalized key organizations for their envisaged total war state in the critical period of modern Japanese history; and how Japan came to briefly dominate news in Asia and the Pacific during the war. The Board of Information (1940-45) was created with the intention of managing centrally all civilian information-relevant activities for the total war state. Contrary to an orthodox view, its priority continued to be external affairs, rather than domestic thought control. The national news agency, Do-mei News Agency (1936-45), was its key operational agency, and played a key role in information management in the Japanese occupied China and Southeast Asia in 1942-45. These Japan's foreign policy elites were in no way isolationists, well attuned to global trends, learning from policies and institutions of various countries, and responding to them. Such global thinking, however, did not lead them to the opposition to imperial war. The book also suggests that there were many parallels with other countries. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements List of figures: diagrams, maps, pictures and tables List of abbreviations Note on conventions Introduction Ch. 1: A New Era of News Propaganda and Japan's Foreign Policy, 1933-4 Ch. 2: Who Controls Information for Foreign Policy?: The Cabinet Information Committee and the National News Agency, D mei, 1935-649 Ch. 3: Konoe's Vision and the Army's Vision for a Total War State: The Cabinet Information Department and the Outbreak of War with China, December 1936-November 1937 85 Ch. 4: The Cabinet Information Department and News and Cultural Propaganda, July-December 1937 Ch. 5: The Emergence of the Comprehensive Propaganda Scheme: Japan's Propaganda Operations and D mei in Wartime China and Beyond, 1938-40 Ch. 6: The Making of the Board of Information and the Total War State, Tokyo, May-December 1940 Ch. 7: The Board of Information's Vision for a News Empire in Southeast Asia, April 1940-June 1942 Ch. 8: Japan's News Empire: D mei in Occupied Southeast Asia, 1942-5 Ch. 9: The Board of Information and D mei during the Pacific War, Tokyo, 1942-45 Ch. 10: The End of the Board of Information and D mei as Foreign Policy Organizations, August-December 1945 Conclusion Archival Sources Bibliography About the Author: Tomoko Akami, Ph.D. (1959) is at Pacific and Asian History at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. She has published on history of international relations in Asia and the Pacific region, internationalism, inter-imperialism, liberalism, and international organisations of the region, including Internationaizing the Pacific (Routledge 2002), Japan's News Propaganda (RoL 2012).
Author: Takeshi Ishida Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 372
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Following World War II, the American Occupation created Western style democratic institutions in Japan and sought to develop a society and culture that would support a democratic political system. Now, after four decades, the successes and failures of Japanese democracy can be assessed. How equal are Japan's citizens? To what extent are their views represented in the legislature? How does Japan handle dissent and protest? How stable is its democracy? In closely related and readable essays, thirteen leading experts consider three main components of democracy in Japan - political, social, and economic. The editors' introduction provides historical background, making this book accessible and valuable for students, the general reader interested in Japan, as well as the specialist.
Author: Maiko Ichihara
Author: Maiko Ichihara
Author: Yasushi Watanabe
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Author: David Arase
Author: Larry Diamond
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Author: Frank McNeil
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Author: Takeshi Ishida