Japan’s World Power: Assessment, Outlook and Vision

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
Contributors
Foreword
Series editors’ preface
Introduction: powerful or powerless? The puzzle of Japanese power
Part I Japan’s power strategy on the international scene
	1 The power of Japan and its ‘Grand Strategy’
	2 Contemporary Japan’s power within international financial organisations
	3 Exercising power within an international organisation: Japan’s diplomacy toward the United Nations reform in the 1990s and 2000s
Part II The challenges Japan faces
	4 ‘Proactive contribution to peace’ in context: the long path to normalisation
	5 The U.S.–Japan Alliance: enhancer or brake on Japan’s power?
	6 Japan’s economic strengths and weaknesses
Part III Internal politics as a source of weakness
	7 How History impacts Japan’s image and interests, and what to do about it
	8 From weak prime minister to proactive prime minister: domestic political conditions and their transformations
	9 Politics should end at the water’s edge: for a national security policy beyond party lines
Index