Policy Coherence Towards East Asia Japanese Edition

This publication examines the impact of OECD policies on countries in the East Asia region in relation to a number areas including trade and investment, agriculture, finance and development aid, macroeconomic policies and regional co-operation; as well as considering the interaction of these OECD-country policies and their coherence with each other.

This book looks at the impact of OECD country policies on East Asia in trade, investment, agriculture, finance, aid, macroeconomic policies and regional co-operation. Further, it examines the interaction of OECD country policies and their coherence with each other.

Japan's China Policy understands Japan's foreign policy in terms of power - one of the most central concepts of political analysis. It contributes a fresh understanding to the subject by developing relational power as an analytical framework and by applying it to significant issues in Japan's China policy: the negotiations for a bilateral investment protection treaty and the disputed Pinnacle (Senkaku/Diaoyu) Islands. Hagström demonstrates that Japan exerted power over China in such divergent empirical settings for the most part by using civilian instruments positively, defensively and through non-action. Given that Japan's foreign policy is often portrayed rather enigmatically in terms of power, the unique contribution of Japan's China Policy is to demonstrate how to analyze power aspects of Japan's foreign policy in a more coherent fashion. This revealing approach to Japan's foreign policy will be of huge interest to anyone studying Japanese politics, foreign policy or international relations.

Thsi book examines the impact of OECD country policies on East Asia in such areas as trade, investment, environment, agriculture, finance and aid, as well as on macroeconomic policies and regional co-operation. It also examines the coherence lessons of these OECD country policies.

This volume provides a timely and expert analysis of Japan's Asia policy as the country continues to address the future through trying to cope with the burden of a chequered past. Dr Mendl locates his expostion of Japan's policy towards both North-East and South-East Asia in a full historical and cultural context and importantly takes due account of the underlying and potent factor of national identity in shaping international outlook. He begins his study with a discussion of the enigma of Japanese policy expressed in debate over whether or not that policy expresses a calculated grand design. A corresponding enigma emerges in Dr Mendl's exposition of Japan's policy towards a part of the world with which it shares a geographical location and a measure of identity but one which, he maintains, cannot be separated from its engagement at the global level. In exploring the theme of how Japan is confronted by the problem of reconcling its relations with Asia with pursuing a global role in unchartered post-Cold War waters, Dr.Mendl makes a lucid and scholarly contribution to the debate about Japan's place in a world which it has helped to shape through its economic performance and example.

This publication examines the impact of OECD policies on countries in the East Asia region in relation to a number areas including trade and investment, agriculture, finance and development aid, macroeconomic policies and regional co-operation; as well as considering the interaction of these OECD-country policies and their coherence with each other.

Thsi book examines the impact of OECD country policies on East Asia in such areas as trade, investment, environment, agriculture, finance and aid, as well as on macroeconomic policies and regional co-operation. It also examines the coherence lessons of these OECD country policies.