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題名: | Whither an Internationalist Japan: Global Activism and Democratic Deficit in Japanese Foreign Policy | 作者: | 楊向峰 Yang, Xiang-Feng |
關鍵詞: | liberal internationalism;democracy promotion;peacekeeping;human security;development assistance | 日期: | Dec-2013 | 上傳時間: | 21-Nov-2016 | 摘要: | Japanese foreign policy since the late 1980s has exhibited many signs of liberal internationalism: a generous development assistance package despite its economic malaise, an expanded presence in international peacekeeping and peace-building missions, and a multi-faceted, people-centered approach to international security. This article, however, draws attention to the (non)liberal character of Japanese activism by shedding light on Japan`s entanglement in democracy assistance, a trademark liberal internationalist project. Two features stand out in this juxtaposition. First, democracy assistance has been seen as supplementary-rather than parallel-to the peace and development initiatives in Japan`s diplomatic repertoire. Second, when democracy was indeed played up, the act nonetheless exposed the myriad innate contradictions between the liberal paradigm and Japan`s nationalist impulses that transpired in its diplomatic offensives. Humanistic as it can be at times, Japan`s global outreach is non-liberal at best because it is intellectually informed and motivated by a confluence of nationalist resurgence and realist power considerations. | 關聯: | Issues & Studies,49(4),105-140 | 資料類型: | article |
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