Japan's Middle East Security Policy

Theory and Cases

By Yukiko Miyagi

This study examines how Japanese policy toward Middle East security issues is shaped by the need to both maintain Japan’s security alliance with the US...

September 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45878-8 (Routledge)

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Rethinking Japanese Security

Internal and External Dimensions

By Peter J. Katzenstein

Since the unexpected end of the Cold War, standard arguments about power politics can no longer be adopted uncritically. This has led to a renewed...

March 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77395-9 (Routledge)

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By Keith A. Nitta

Education policymaking is traditionally seen as a domestic political process. The job of deciding where students will be educated, what they will be taught, who...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96250-6 (Routledge)

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The El'tsin and Putin Periods

By Natasha Kuhrt

Drawing on the most up-to-date sources, this book provides an in-depth examination of Russia’s relations with China and Japan, the two Asia-Pacific superpowers-in-waiting. For Russia...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30578-5 (Routledge)

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The Arc of Japan's Economic Development

By Arthur Alexander

This core textbook is the definitive overview of the Japanese economy. It charts its history from the period before the Meiji restoration and its astonishing...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-70024-5 (Routledge)

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Re-Politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy

Edited by Christopher Goto Jones

In Re-Politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy Christopher Goto-Jones contends that existing approaches to the controversial Kyoto School fail to take it seriously as a...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37237-4 (Routledge)

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By David Chapman

Shedding light on contemporary Japanese society in an international context, Japanese-Korean relations and modern day notions of a multicultural Japan, this book addresses the broad...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42637-4 (Routledge)

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Resolving the Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute

Hokkaido-Sakhalin Relations

By Brad Williams

The unresolved territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the South Kuril Islands/Northern Territories remains the largest obstacle to concluding a peace treaty and fully...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41321-3 (Routledge)

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Leadership Looming Large

By Alisa Gaunder

Political Reform in Japan argues that the quality of political leadership is the crucial determinant of whether parties in positions of dominance, like the Liberal...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41590-3 (Routledge)

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Global Governance and Japan

The Institutional Architecture

Edited by Glenn D. Hook, Hugo Dobson

Leading specialists from Europe and Japan examine the institutional mechanisms of governance at the global level and provide concrete evidence of the role Japan plays...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42401-1 (Routledge)

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