Japan's foreign policy maturation: a quest for normalcy

✍ Scribed by Kevin J. Cooney

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 237
• Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture'',
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 foregin policy elites, the changes in Japanese foreign policy are put into the context of the foreign policy literature.

✦ Table of Contents

EAST ASIA HISTORY, POLITICS, SOCIOLOGY, CULTURE......Page 2
Japan's Foreign Policy Maturation: A Quest for Normalcy......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 7
LIST OF FIGURES......Page 10
ACRONYMS AND TERMS......Page 12
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 15
INTRODUCTION......Page 19
THE CATALYST FOR CHANGE......Page 20
THE RESEARCH QUESTION......Page 22
FOREIGN POLICY RESTRUCTURING......Page 24
JAPANESE FOREIGN POLICY......Page 27
THE RESEARCH -ELITE INTERVIEWING......Page 29
RELIABILITY AND......Page 31
THE VARIABLES......Page 32
OBJECTIVES AND EXPECTED SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BOOK......Page 34
OUTLINE OF THE BOOK......Page 35
NOTES......Page 36
CHAPTER 2 THE STORY OF JAPAN'S "ABNORMAL" FOREIGN POLICY UNDER ARTICLE NINE......Page 39
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND......Page 41
JAPANESE FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY 1952-1990......Page 47
THE YOSHIDA DOCTRINE......Page 49
THE GULF WAR AND JAPANESE FOREIGN POLICY......Page 51
LEGAL ISSUES......Page 53
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND T H E P K O......Page 55
THE KAlFU BILL AND WHY IT FAILED......Page 56
THE MIYAZA WA PKO BILL......Page 57
CAMBODIA, MOZAMBIQUE, AND THE GOLAN HEIGHTS......Page 58
TOWARDS A SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT AND BEYOND......Page 59
NOTES......Page 64
CHAPTER 3 REALISM AND FOREIGN POLICY RESTRUCTURING I N JAPAN......Page 73
JAPANESE LIMITATIONS......Page 74
FOREIGN POLICY RESTRUCTURING......Page 78
THE RESEARCH MODEL......Page 84
THE RESEARCH TOOL......Page 93
THE FIELD RESEARCH......Page 99
OVERVIEW O F THE RESULTS O F THE FIELD RESEARCH......Page 102
OLD VERSES NEW......Page 104
NOTES......Page 108
CHAPTER 4 JAPAN'S SECURITY OPTIONS......Page 119
JAPAN'S NATIONAL SECURITY......Page 121
ABANDONMENT......Page 124
JAPAN'S OPTIONS42......Page 127
OPTION #1: CHINA......Page 129
OPTION #3: MULTILATERAL OPTIONS INCLUDING ASEAN/ARF......Page 131
OPTION #4: SOUTH KOREA......Page 132
OPTION #6: UNILATERPAL OPTIONS OR GO IT ALONE......Page 134
CONCLUSION......Page 135
NOTES......Page 140
CHAPTER 5 HOW JAPAN VIEWS ITS PLACE IN THE WORLD AND THE "MYTH" OF GAIATSU......Page 151
ADJUSTING TO THE POST-COLD WAR WORLD......Page 152
GAIATSU......Page 155
THE "MYTH" OF GAIATSU......Page 156
CHINA......Page 161
MULTILATERAL EFFORTS......Page 162
THE UNITED NATIONS......Page 164
THE UNITED STATES......Page 165
THE KOREAS......Page 166
CONCLUSION......Page 167
NOTES......Page 168
FUTURE SOURCES OF FOREIGN POLICY......Page 175
THE DIET......Page 176
THE SDF IN JAPANESE FOREIGN POLICY......Page 178
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM......Page 179
WORLD LEADERSHIP......Page 181
JAPANESE HEGEMONY?......Page 182
JAPAN'S FUTURE......Page 184
SUGGESTIONS FOR FOREIGN POLICY NORMALIZATION......Page 186
IMPLICATIONS FOR HERMANN'S MODEL: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?......Page 187
PRAGMATIC REALISM......Page 188
CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 191
NOTES......Page 194
POSTSCRIPT......Page 201
APPENDIX A GOVERNMENT/DIET MEMBER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS......Page 203
APPENDIX B ACADEMIC/JOURNALIST INTERVIEW QUESTIONS......Page 209
APPENDIX C INTRODUCTON USED FOR THE FIELD INTERVIEWS......Page 215
APPENDIX D PARTIAL LIST OF ELITES INTERVIEWED......Page 217
BlBLIOGRAPHY......Page 221