Japan's Role in the Post-Cold War World

by Akiva Kato, Richard Leitch, Martin E. Weinstein

Overview

American and Japanese experts provide a concise and clearly written survey of Japan's relationships around the world and the foreign policy perspectives in Tokyo today based on lively interviews with key policymakers and new research there. The study offers a short background history of Japanese perceptions of the international system from the mid-19th century to the end of the Cold War and considers Japan's role in the post-Cold War world.

This brief analysis concludes with views about the future possible relationships with Asian neighbors, Europe, the Russian Republic, and the United States. This study defines the bilateral and global dimensions of Japanese foreign policy. Recommended for general readers and as a text for undergraduate and graduate students in courses in comparative politics, U.S. foreign policy, and world history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313297311
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/18/1995
Series:	Contributions in Political Science , #36
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.56(d)
Lexile:	1720L (what's this?)

About the Author

RICHARD D. LEITCH, JR. is in the Department of Political Science at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has recently completed a research project for the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership in Tokyo.

AKIRA KATO is a Professor at the National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo. He is also the author of Gendai Sensoron.

MARTIN E. WEINSTEIN, Professor of Political Science, University of Montana, is well known for his numerous studies of Japanese politics, including The Human Face of Japan's Leadership (Greenwood, 1990).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Historical Background and Asia
East and West in Japanese Foreign Policy
Defining and Pursuing a Post-Cold War Role
Asia Looms Larger
Policies for a Trifurcated Europe
Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Japan
Relations with the United States
Japan and the United States: Bilateral and Global Dimensions
Conclusion
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

Describes how Japan is coping with the loss of the simple and comforting bipolar structure of international relations by searching for a new foreign policy that is coherent, flexible, and can be implemented gradually. Reminding readers that there is more to Japanese foreign policy than economics, sets the historical background of East and West, the Cold War, and the growth of China; relations with the new western and eastern Europes and with Russia; and the bilateral and global dimensions of relations with the US. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews