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Japan's ASEAN Policy : In Search of Proactive Multilateralism

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The central puzzle in the study of Japanese foreign policy has been why Japan has continued to play a passive role in international affairs, despite its impressive economic and political power. Challenging this central puzzle, the core argument of this study is to present an alternative path for the study of Japanese foreign policy. In fact, in recent years Japanese foreign policy has become less dependent on the United States, more strategic towards Asia, and more energetic towards international and regional institutions. One of the main features is multilateralism in Japanese foreign policy, as shown by Japan?s active participation in the regional institutions. In pursuing multilateralism, Japan cooperated closely with the only durable regional body in Southeast Asia, to wit, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Given the fact that East Asian regionalism has been driven by ASEAN, it is of utmost urgency to investigate the emerging partnership between Japan and ASEAN. The central thesis of this study is thus to put Japan?s ASEAN policy into a proper perspective by asserting that Japan?s new policy initiatives towards ASEAN are not reactive, nor are they exceptions in a broader framework of merely reactive foreign policy.


Author: Sueo Sudo
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Publication Date: Dec 30, 2014
Number of Pages: 299 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 9814519022
ISBN-13: 9789814519021

Japan's ASEAN Policy : In Search of Proactive Multilateralism

$44.85
$39.98
Sale 11%
 
The central puzzle in the study of Japanese foreign policy has been why Japan has continued to play a passive role in international affairs, despite its impressive economic and political power. Challenging this central puzzle, the core argument of this study is to present an alternative path for the study of Japanese foreign policy. In fact, in recent years Japanese foreign policy has become less dependent on the United States, more strategic towards Asia, and more energetic towards international and regional institutions. One of the main features is multilateralism in Japanese foreign policy, as shown by Japan?s active participation in the regional institutions. In pursuing multilateralism, Japan cooperated closely with the only durable regional body in Southeast Asia, to wit, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Given the fact that East Asian regionalism has been driven by ASEAN, it is of utmost urgency to investigate the emerging partnership between Japan and ASEAN. The central thesis of this study is thus to put Japan?s ASEAN policy into a proper perspective by asserting that Japan?s new policy initiatives towards ASEAN are not reactive, nor are they exceptions in a broader framework of merely reactive foreign policy.


Author: Sueo Sudo
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Publication Date: Dec 30, 2014
Number of Pages: 299 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 9814519022
ISBN-13: 9789814519021
 

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