Japanese Foreign Policy Today: A Reader

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy....Pages 3-17
Emerging Foreign Policy Actors: Subnational Governments and Nongovernmental Organizations....Pages 18-39
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
Japan and International Organizations....Pages 43-64
Globalization and Regionalization....Pages 65-82
Japanese Foreign Policy and Human Rights....Pages 83-95
Japanese Environmental Foreign Policy....Pages 96-121
Japanese Role in PKO and Humanitarian Assistance....Pages 122-135
Ironies in Japanese Defense and Disarmament Policy....Pages 136-151
Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a Japanese Foreign Policy Tool....Pages 152-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
U.S.-Japan Relations in the Post-Cold War Era: Ambiguous Adjustment to a Changing Strategic Environment....Pages 177-193
Japan and the European Union....Pages 194-208
The Waiting Game: Japan-Russia Relations....Pages 209-225
Japanese Foreign Policy toward Northeast Asia....Pages 226-250
Japanese Relations with Southeast Asia in an Era of Turbulence....Pages 251-265
Japan and South Asia: Between Cooperation and Confrontation....Pages 266-282
Japan and Australia....Pages 283-296
Back Matter....Pages 297-316