The future of foreign policy in Japan is uncertain. The post-World War II paradigm that ensured security and prosperity for the Japanese people has lost much of its effectiveness. This book examines this uncertainty and explores the decision-making processes that have led Japan to this point
Japan can be explained. It needs to be explained because it matters. That it matters accounts for the wide range of information available in English on Japan's international relations.
Beginning with the closing decade of European colonial rule in Southeast Asia and covering the wartime Japanese empire and its postwar disintegration, Tensions of Empire focuses on the Japanese in Southeast Asia, Indonesians in Japan, and the legacy of the war in Southeast Asia. It also examines Japanese perceptions of Southeast Asia and the lingering ambivalence toward Japanese involvement in …
Buku kecil ini merupakan kumpulan 5 naskah pidato yang disampaikan Duta Besar Jepang untuk Indonesia, Sumio Edamura di Indonesia dalam berbagai kesempatan.
The sudden end of the Cold War took the Japanese foreign policy community by surprise. The Yoshida Doctrine which served Japanese foreign policy so well during the Cold War is no longer a viable foreign policy option. This dissertation examines the restructuring of Japanese foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. Through a series of 56 interviews with Japanese foreign policy elites, the c…
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…
Masalah Cina dalam ketahanan Nasional Indonesia merupakan pembahasan dalam buku ini yang merupakan hasil kajian yang dilakukan sejak tahun 1976. Program pembangunan yang sedang dilakukan pemerintah orde baru sedang dilaksanakan, pemerintah orde sedang mengatasi persoalan mendasar yang dialami rakyat melalui peningkatan kehidupan ekonomi, di sisi lain disparitas pendapatan antara pribumi dan non…
In international relations today, influence is a 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.
Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year since the introduction of its market reforms in 1978. Foreign businesses have flocked to invest in China, and Chinese exports have begun to fl…
This is the first book to survey China growing role in Southeast Asia along multiple dimensions. It looks closely and skeptically at the multitude of ways that China has built connections in the region, including through trade, foreign aid, and cultural diplomacy. It incorporates examples such as the operation of Confucius Institutes in Indonesia or the promotion of the concept of guangxi. Chin…