Japan's Reluctant Realism: Foreign Policy Challenges in an Era of Uncertain Power

by Michael J. Green

Book Overview

In Japan's Reluctant Realism , Michael J. Green examines the adjustments of Japanese foreign policy in the decade since the end of the Cold War. Green presents case studies of China, the Korean peninsula, Russia and Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the international financial institutions, and multilateral forums (the United Nations, APEC, and the ARF). In each of these studies, Green considers Japanese objectives; the effectiveness of Japanese diplomacy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403962359
• ISBN13: 9781403962355
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

an excellent book on Japanese foreign policy

This is an excellent book on Japanese foreign policy written by someone now working for the National Security Council. It draws upon on copious research including interviews conducted by the author, as well as Japanese and English language secondary source materials. Green convincingly argues that Japanese foreign policy is particularly driven by parochial domestic considerations, and in this respect the book is quite timely in light of the political changes occurring in Japan. I learned quite a bit from reading this book -- even regarding issues on which I thought my own prior knowledge was significant.