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Japans Foreign Relations in Asia
Japans Foreign Relations in Asia has been specifically designed to introduce students to Japans foreign relations in Asia since 1990, a period in which there have been dramatic developments in Japan, including the reinterpretation of the Constitution and expanded USJapan defence cooperation. The geopolitical dynamics and implications of these new developments are profound and underscore the need for a new textbook on this subject.
Covering not only the key regional players of China and the Koreas, this textbook also encompasses chapters on Japans relations with India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand, along with its multilateral engagement and initiatives. Combined with transnational chapters on critical issues, key themes covered by this book include:
An historical overview of key post-war developments.
Japans evolving security policy.
Analysis of the regions escalating maritime disputes.
An evaluation of Japanese soft power in Asia.
Written by leading experts in accessible, jargon-free style, this new textbook will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Japanese politics, international relations and foreign policy and Asian affairs in general.
James D.J. Brown is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University Japan. His recent publications include Japan, Russia and their Territorial Dispute (2016).
Jeff Kingston is Director of Asian Studies at Temple University Japan. His recent publications include Press Freedom in Contemporary Japan (2017) and Asian Nationalisms Reconsidered (2015).
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Thomas U. Berger is a Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He is the author of Cultures of Antimilitarism: National Security in Germany and Japan (1998) and War, Guilt and World Politics after World War II (2012) as well as co-editor of Japan in International Politics: Beyond the Reactive State (2007). He has published extensively on East Asian and European security, alliance politics, international migration, and the politics of historical memory. He received his PhD in political science from MIT.
James D.J. Brown is Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University, Japan Campus. His main area of research is JapanRussia relations. His work has previously been published in Asia Policy , the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus , Europe-Asia Studies , International Politics , Post-Soviet Affairs , Problems of Post Communism , and Politics . His book Japan, Russia and their Territorial Dispute: The Northern Delusion was published by Routledge in 2016. He is co-editor of this project.
Tina Burrett is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Japan. Her recent publications include Abe Road: Comparing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abes Leadership of his First and Second Governments, Parliamentary Affairs (2017); Spin Over Substance? The PR Strategies of Vladimir Putin and Shinzo Abe, in Press Freedom in Contemporary Japan , Jeff Kingston (ed), Routledge 2016; Mixed Signals: Democratisation and the Myanmar Media, Government and Opposition (2017); and Prime Ministerial Leadership in Britain and Japan (forthcoming).
Pavin Chachavalpongpun is Associate Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. The holder of a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, he is the author of numerous books, including A Plastic Nation: The Curse of Thainess in ThaiBurmese Relations and Reinventing Thailand: Thaksin and His Foreign Policy . He currently teaches Southeast Asian politics and international relations in East Asia, both at Kyoto University and Doshisha University. He is also editor of an online journal, Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia the only journal in which all articles are, besides English, translated into Japanese, Thai, Bahasa, and Vietnamese.
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Alexis Dudden is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. She publishes regularly about Japan and Northeast Asia, and her books include Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States and Japans Colonization of Korea . She received her BA from Columbia University in 1991 and her PhD in history from the University of Chicago in 1998. She has lived for extended periods of time in Japan and South Korea and is an advisory council member of Harvard Universitys Reischauer Institutes Research Project on Japanese Constitutional Revision. In 201617, she was Fulbright USROK Alliance Visiting Professor at Yonsei University.
Howard W. French is a Professor at Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Journalism.His career in journalism began as a freelance reporter for the Washington Post and many other publications in West Africa. He was hired by the New York Times in 1986, worked as a metropolitan reporter for three years, and from 1990 to 2008 reported for the Times as bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, West Africa, Japan and the Koreas, and China in Shanghai. He is the author of A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa (2004) and Chinas Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in Africa (2014), each of which was named a non-fiction book of the year or cited among the years most notable books by several newspapers. His most recent book is Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape Chinas Push for Global Power (2017).
Aurelia George Mulgan is Professor of Politics in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Canberra. She is the author of seven books on Japanese politics and political economy, including The Abe Administration and the Rise of the Prime Ministerial Executive (Routledge 2018). She was also the winner of an Ohira Prize in 2001 for The Politics of Agriculture in Japan , and the Toshiba Prize in 2010.
