Identity Change and Foreign Policy (eBook, ePUB)

Japan and its 'Others'
Redaktion: Hagstrom, Linus

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In recent years, Japan's foreign and security policies have begun to change, despite seemingly stable 'peaceful norms' and 'antimilitarist culture'. This book seeks to address these changes through engagement with recent developments in identity theory, theorizing identity as a product of processes of differentiation. Contributors argue that Japan's identity is produced and reproduced, but also transformed, through the drawing of boundaries between 'self' and 'other'. With the current balance between resilience and change, more drastic foreign and security policy transformations might loom just beyond the horizon. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Pacific Review.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317394853
• Artikelnr.: 58401469

Autorenporträt

Linus Hagström is East Asia Programme Director at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and Professor of Political Science at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm, Sweden. The author of Japan's China Policy: A Relational Power Analysis (Routledge, 2005), he recently published articles in the European Journal of International Relations and The Pacific Review.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Japan and identity change: why it matters in International Relations 2.
The persistence of reified Asia as reality in Japanese foreign policy
narratives 3. Shimane Prefecture, Tokyo and the territorial dispute over
Dokdo/Takeshima: regional and national identities in Japan 4. The North
Korean abduction issue: emotions, securitisation and the reconstruction of
Japanese identity from 'aggressor' to 'victim' and from 'pacifist' to
'normal' 5. The rise of the Chinese 'Other' in Japan's construction of
identity: Is China a focal point of Japanese nationalism? 6. Identity and
recognition: remembering and forgetting the post-war in Sino-Japanese
relations 7. International and domestic challenges to Japan's postwar
security identity: 'norm constructivism' and Japan's new 'proactive
pacifism'