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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785893403321

Autore

Sakaki Alexandra

Titolo

Japan and Germany as regional actors : evaluating change and continuity after the Cold War / / Alexandra Sakaki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-60621-6

9786613918666

1-136-25100-6

0-203-10478-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Politics in Asia series

Disciplina

327.43

Soggetti

Comparative government

Japan Foreign relations 1989-

Germany Foreign relations 1990-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-202) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Japan and Germany as Regional Actors; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and special terms; Introduction; 1. Theoretical and methodological frameworks; 2. Role conceptions in German and Japanese speeches; 3. German and Japanese missile defence policies; 4. Policies on textbook talks: comparing German-Polish and Japanese-South Korean dialogue; 5. Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The end of the Cold War and the bipolar era constituted a significant change in Germany's and Japan's foreign policy settings, granting both countries greater leeway to pursue policies divergent from Washington's strategy. This important book fills a gap in the existing literature by employing an explicitly comparative framework for analyzing and evaluating Germany's and Japan's post-Cold War regional foreign policy trajectories. Recent non-comparative studies diverge in their assessments of the extent to which the two countries' foreign policies are characterized by continuity or change, a