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Japan’s quest for permanent Security Council membership over four decades reveals an interactive network of motivations, achievements and opportunities, with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the central role of promoter. The desire of recognition for the achievements of its multilateral diplomacy in the wake of having become the world’s second largest economic power has further fuelled this ambition. While Japan’s bid has thus widely won support from many UN member states, the intrinsic problems of Security Council reform have so far prevented any breakthrough.
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Hendrik Spruyt, ‘A new architecture for peace? Reconfiguring Japan among the great powers’, The Pacific Review, vol. 11, no. 3, 1998, p.375.
Masayuki Tadokoro, ‘A Japanese view on the restructuring of the Security Council’, in Bruce Russett (ed.), The once and future Security Council, Houndmills: Macmillan, 1997, p. 131.
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Drifte, R. (2000). Conclusion. In: Japan’s Quest for a Permanent Security Council Seat. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-07467-6_6
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