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When I told a friend in the Japanese media that I planned to write a book about his country’s foreign policy, he replied by joking, “Japanese foreign policy? Let me know if you find any!!”
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Karel G. van Wolfren,“The Japan Problem,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 65, No. 2 (Winter 1986/87), p. 289.
J.A.A. Stockwin et al., Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan ( Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988 ).
Kent E. Calder, “Japanese Foreign Economic Policy Formation: Explaining the Reactive State,” World Politics Vol. 40, No. 4 (July 1988), pp. 517–41.
Other explanations of the pervading dysfunction ofJapanese foreign policy include: Michael Blaker, “Evaluating Japan’s Diplomatic Performance,” in Gerald L. Curtis, ed., Japan’s Foreign Policy After the Cold War: Coping with Change ( New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1993 ), pp. 1–42;
Edward J. Lincoln, Japan’s New Global Role ( Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1992 ).
Susan J. Pharr, “Japan’s Defensive Foreign Policy and the Politics of Burden Sharing,” in Gerald L. Curtis, ed., Japan’s Foreign Policy after the Cold War: Coping with Change ( New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1993 ), p. 235.
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Peter J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, Network Power: Japan and Asia ( Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997 ), p. 34.
David Arase, Buying Power: The Political Economy of Japanese Foreign Aid ( New York: Lynne Rienner, 1995 );
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Dennis J. Encarnation, Rivals Beyond Trade: America versus Japan in Global Competition ( Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995 ).
Steven Vogel, “The Power behind ”Spin On’s: “The Military Implications of Japan’s Commercial Technology,” in Wayne Sandholtz, Michael Borrus, et al., The Highest Stakes: The Economic Foundations of the Next Security System, ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1992 ), p. 76.
See Glenn D. Hook, Militarization and Demilitarization in Contemporary Japan (London: Routledge, 1996)
See, for example, Herman Kahn, Japan: The Emerging Superstate ( Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970 ).
More recent structural realist arguments that Japanese economic power will lead to the pursuit of military power include: George Friedman and Meredith LeBard, The Coming War with Japan ( New York: St. Martin’s, 1991 );
Christopher Layne, “The Unipolar Illusion,” International Security, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Spring 1993), pp. 5–51.
Rajan Menon, “The Once and Future Superpower: At Some Point Japan Is Likely to Build a Military Machine that Matches Its Economic Might,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, Vol. 52, No. 1 (January/February 1997), p. 34.
see Aaron Friedberg, “Ripe for Rivalry: Prospects for Peace in a Multipolar Asia,” in Michael E. Brown, Sean M. Lynn Jones, and Steve E. Miller, eds., East Asian Security ( Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995 ).
Carol Gluck, “Patterns of Change; A ‘Grand Unified Theory’ of Japanese History,” Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 48 (March 1995), p. 38.
On the critique of monocausal mania, see Stephen M. Walt, “Rigor or Rigor Mortis? Rational Choice and Security Studies,” International Security, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Spring 1999 ), pp. 5–48.
On norms and institutions, see Peter J. Katzenstein, ed., The Culture of National Security: Norms, Identity and World Politics ( New York: Columbia University Press, 1996 ).
On neoclassical realism, see Gideon Rose, “Neoclassical Realism and Theories of Foreign Policy,” World Politics, Vol. 51, No. 1 (October 1998), pp. 144–172.
For a critique, see Jeffrey W. Legro and Andrew Moravcsik, “Is Anybody Still a Realist?” International Security, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Fall 1999 ), pp. 5–55.
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Green, M.J. (2001). Introduction. In: Japan’s Reluctant Realism. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780312299804_1
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