How have shifts in both the international environment and domestic politics affected the trajectory of Japanese foreign policy? Does it still make sense to depict Japan as passive and reactive, or have the country's leaders become strategic and proactive? ""Japan in International Politics"" presents a nuanced picture of Japanese foreign policy, emphasizing the ways in which slow, adaptive chang…
in the 1990s, the United States faces a rapidly unfolding security environment in the Asia-Pacific area. Its principal features are familiar : the economic dynamism of market economies ; the normalization of relations between China and the Soviet Union , symbolized by Gorbachev's visit to japan.