Hook - Japans international relations: politics, economics and security

Japans International Relations

The latest edition of this comprehensive and user-friendly textbook provides a single volume resource for all those studying Japans international relations. It offers a clear and concise introduction to the most important aspects of Japans role in the globalized economy of the twenty-first century. The book has been fully updated and revised to include comprehensive discussions of contemporary key issues for Japans IR, including:

• the rise of China;
• reaction to the global economic and financial crisis since 2008;
• Japans proactive role after 9/11 and the war on terror;
• responses to events on the Korean Peninsula;
• relations with the USA and the Obama administration;
• relations with Russia, Central Asia and the Middle East;
• changing responses to an expanding and deepening European Union.

Extensively illustrated, the text includes statistics, maps, photographs, summaries and suggestions for further reading, making it essential reading for those studying Japanese politics and the international relations of the Asia Pacific.

Glenn D. Hook is Professor of Japanese Studies in the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield.

Julie Gilson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham.

Christopher W. Hughes is Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies, University of Warwick.

Hugo Dobson is Professor of Japans International Relations in the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield.

Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies / Routledge

Series Editor: Glenn D. Hook

Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield

This series, published by Routledge in association with the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield, both makes available original research on a wide range of subjects dealing with Japan and provides introductory overviews of key topics in Japanese Studies.

1. The Internationalization of Japan

Edited by Glenn D. Hook and Michael Weiner

2. Race and Migration in Imperial Japan

Michael Weiner

3. Japan and the Pacific Free Trade Area

Pekka Korhonen

4. Greater China and Japan

Prospects for an economic partnership?

Robert Taylor

5. The Steel Industry in Japan

A comparison with the UK Hasegawa Harukiyo

6. Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan

Richard Siddle

7. Japans Minorities

The illusion of homogeneity

Edited by Michael Weiner

8. Japanese Business Management

Restructuring for low growth and globalization

Edited by Hasegawa Harukiyo and Glenn D. Hook

9. Japan and Asia Pacific Integration

Pacific romances 196896

Pekka Korhonen

10. Japans Economic Power and Security

Japan and North Korea

Christopher W. Hughes

11. Japans Contested Constitution

Documents and analysis

Glenn D. Hook and Gavan McCormack

12. Japans International Relations

Politics, economics and security

Glenn D. Hook, Julie Gilson, Christopher W. Hughes and Hugo Dobson

13. Japanese Education Reform

Nakasones legacy

Christopher P. Hood

14. The Political Economy of Japanese Globalisation

Glenn D. Hook and Hasegawa Harukiyo

15. Japan and Okinawa

Structure and subjectivity

Edited by Glenn D. Hook and Richard Siddle

16. Japan and Britain in the Contemporary World

Responses to common issues Edited by Hugo Dobson and Glenn D. Hook

17. Japan and United Nations Peacekeeping

New pressures, new responses

Hugo Dobson

18. Japanese Capitalism and Modernity in a Global Era

Re-fabricating lifetime employment relations

Peter C. D. Matanle

19. Nikkeiren and Japanese Capitalism

John Crump

20. Production Networks in Asia and Europe

Skill formation and technology transfer in the automobile industry

Edited by Rogier Busser and Yuri Sadoi

21. Japan and the G7/8

19752002

Hugo Dobson

22. The Political Economy of Reproduction in Japan

Between nation-state and everyday life

Takeda Hiroko

23. Grassroots Pacifism in Post-War Japan

The rebirth of a nation

Mari Yamamoto

24. Interfirm Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry

Ralph Paprzycki

25. Globalisation and Women in the Japanese Workforce

Beverley Bishop

26. Contested Governance in Japan

Sites and issues

Edited by Glenn D. Hook

27. Japans International Relations

Politics, economics and security, second edition

Glenn D. Hook, Julie Gilson, Christopher W. Hughes and Hugo Dobson

28. Japans Changing Role in Humanitarian Crises

Yukiko Nishikawa

29. Japans Subnational Governments in International Affairs

Purnendra Jain

30. Japan and East Asian Monetary Regionalism

Towards a proactive leadership role?

Shigeko Hayashi

31. Japans Relations with China

Facing a rising power

Lam Peng-Er

32. Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature

A critical approach

Edited by Rachael Hutchinson and Mark Williams

33. Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa

Miyume Tanji

34. Nationalisms in Japan

Edited by Naoko Shimazu

35. Japans Security Policy and the ASEAN Regional Forum

The search for multilateral security in the Asia-Pacific

Takeshi Yuzawa

36. Global Governance and Japan

The institutional architecture

Edited by Glenn D. Hook and Hugo Dobson

37. Japans Middle East Security Policy

Theory and cases

Yukiko Miyagi

38. Japans Minorities

The illusion of homogeneity, second edition

Edited by Michael Weiner

39. Japan and Britain at War and Peace

Edited by Nobuko Kosuge and Hugo Dobson

40. Japans National Identity and Foreign Policy

Russia as Japans other

Alexander Bukh

41. Japanese Cinema and Otherness

Nationalism, multiculturalism and the problem of Japaneseness

Mika Ko

42. Asian Regionalism and Japan

The politics of membership in regional diplomatic, financial and trade groups

Shintaro Hamanaka

43. Decoding Boundaries in Contemporary Japan

The Koizumi Administration and beyond Edited by Glenn D. Hook

44. Japans International Relations

Politics, economics and security, third edition

Glenn D. Hook, Julie Gilson, Christopher W. Hughes and Hugo Dobson

Japans International Relations

Politics, economics and security

Third edition

Glenn D. Hook, Julie Gilson, Christopher W. Hughes and Hugo Dobson

First published 2001 by Routledge

Second edition published 2005 by Routledge

Third edition published 2012

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