Tomohito Shinoda

Koizumi Diplomacy

Japan's Kantei Approach to Foreign and Defense Affairs

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tomohito Shinoda analyzes Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's role in policymaking, focusing on the assistance he receives from the Kantei, or Cabinet Secretariat, the Japanese equivalent of the American president's White House cabinet. Through case studies and personal interviews, Tomohito Shinoda looks at how Koizumi's new system operates on a practical level.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780295986999
• ISBN-10: 0295986999
• Artikelnr.: 22489873

Autorenporträt

Tomohito Shinoda is professor of international relations at the International University of Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
A Note on Conventions
Abbreviations and Japanese Terms
Introduction
1. The Roots of the Kantei Diplomacy
2. A Traumatic Experience: From the Gulf Crisis to the International Peace
Cooperation Legislation
3. The Rise of Kantei
4. Koizumi's Response to Terrorism: The 2001 Anti-Terrorism Legislation
5. Preparing for a National Contingency: The 2003 Emergency Legislation
6. Dispatching the SDF to Reconstruct Iraq: The 2003 Iraq Special Measures
Legislation
7. Evaluating Kantei Diplomacy
Notes
Bibliography
Index