Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
In the past, many International Relations (IR) scholars argued that regionalism in Asia
was incipient. However, over the last two decades, regional institutions in various fields
have been established, increasing territorial cooperation. In addition, Asian countries
have signed Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) as well as joined various global institutions
such as the World Trade Organization (WTO). While neorealists tend to overlook the
power and function of institutions in world politics, the text contends that Asian countries
have attempted to promote regional governance through bilateral arrangements and
global, regional, and multilateral institutions. This book addresses ‘Asia’s struggle to make
and shape institutions in the contemporary world’ (p. 1), and attempts to capture Asia’s
institutional realities and trajectories in international affairs; or in other words, ‘Asian...
© The author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press in association with the Japan
Association of International Relations; all rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail:
journals.permissions@oup.com
Explaining India’s Foreign Policy: From Dream to Realization of Major Power
Takenori Horimoto
Abstract
A power transformation appears to be taking place in Asia, brought about by the rapid
emergence of China and the relative decline of US influence. India has sought a way to
cope with this new situation. India itself has been rising to prominence since the 1990s,
particularly its nuclear weapon tests in 1998 onward. Since the start of the twenty-first
century, India has been perceived as the next country to follow China in seeking a major
power status. Although India has previously tended to conceal its power aspirations, in
2015 it declared its intention to be a leading power. This article elucidates this
transformation through India's policy orientation on a local, regional, and global level and
its key partnerships with Russia and Japan. India’s metamorphosis holds great
implications for the transformation of power in Asia.
© The author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press in association with the Japan
Association of International Relations; all rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail:
journals.permissions@oup.com
The League of Nations as an actor in East Asia: empires and technical cooperation
with ChinaHarumi Goto-Shibata
Abstract
This article examines the technical cooperation between the League of Nations and China
from its origin in 1928 to 1934. By consulting Japanese documents, it analyses why even
Japanese diplomats who were usually regarded as internationalists came to be strongly
opposed to this. The founding fathers of the League did not envisage cooperation
between the League and China, so there were no well-considered rules nor structures for
such works. Technical cooperation developed through personal initiatives; moreover, Dr
Ludwik Rajchman on the League side did not limit his activities to his expertise and came
to be involved in power politics. On the other hand, East Asia was the region where the
old imperial order firmly remained and Japan wanted to maintain it. Britain, the mainstay
of the League of Nations, was also an empire that still had large interests in the region,
so that it clearly understood the causes of Japan’s reaction.
© The author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press in association with the Japan
Association of International Relations; all rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail:
journals.permissions@oup.com
Introduction: Japan’s International Relations at 60, Part 1Keisuke Iida
In October 2016, the Japan Association of International Relations (JAIR) celebrated the
60th anniversary of its establishment. In order to commemorate this anniversary, the
Association invited a number of outstanding international guests to present their work at
its annual Convention. In particular, there were six commemorative panels as part of the
celebration, the titles of which were as follows:
Panel A: ‘The Future of Warfare: Global Aspects of Hybrid Warfare’; Panel B: ‘How Does
Migration Become an Issue in International Relations? Institutionalization in Immigration
Control and the Reappraisal of Liberal Democracy’; Panel C: ‘The End of Globalization:
Lessons from East Asian International Relations in the Interwar Period’; Panel D:
‘Imperial, Post-Imperial, or Pre-Imperial? Global Power Shifts in Historical Perspective’;
Panel E: ‘Asia after the...
© The author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press in association with the Japan
Association of International Relations; all rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail:
journals.permissions@oup.com
Note: IJAPS provides the news platform for this Call for Abstracts but does not organise
the event/publication. Any inquiries pertaining this Call for Abstracts should be directed
to the the contact as provided in the brochure.
Coordinators Bridge Residents and Artists in Regional Japan: A Case Study of the
Art Project Hanarart
ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT
This article outlines the origins, development and historical dynamics of Arabs in
Indonesia and discusses responses of Indonesians, particularly Muslims, towards this
group. It sketches a variety of Indonesia’s Arabs—sadah and non-sadah alike—and their
contributions to the shape of Indonesian Islam, Islamic cultures and Muslim politics. It
also traces the roots of—and depicts the historical dynamics and changes—social
relations and interactions between Arabs and local populations. The relations between
Arabs and non-Arabs in the country have always been marked with conflict and tensions
on the one hand, and peace and cooperation on the other. Some Muslims in the country
“have admired” and built a strong relationship with the Arabs and “Indo-Arabs” while
others have denounced them as the destroyers of Indonesia’s local traditions, civic
pluralism, social stability and interreligious tolerance. This article tries to portray this
paradox, discuss factors contributing to the damaging image of Arabs in contemporary
Indonesia, and explain the rationales behind it. Lastly, it discusses prospects and the
possibilities of the constructive relationships between Arabs, Indo-Arabs, and other
nationals, social groupings, and ethnicities in the country.
ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT
EXCERPT
Nicholas Tarling is one of the foremost historians of the role of the British in Southeast
Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Well established in his field of
expertise specifically focusing on British policy in and towards Malaya / Malaysia,
Indonesia, Siam / Thailand and Myanmar (Burma), he has authored and edited close to
40 books including the two volume The Cambridge History of Southeast
Asia (Cambridge, 1992), and more than 90 scholarly journal articles in an academic
career spanning more than half a century.
“We Are the World Itself”: The Construction of “Good” Citizenship and Deviations
from It in Ergo Proxy
ABSTRACT
Anime is the dominant medium of pop-culture expression in modern Japan, lending itself
readily to genres such as romance and comedy, as well as advanced concepts of social
and political discourse. At the same time, the rise of modern anime, especially science
fiction anime coincided with the coming to the forefront of the issue of immigration. This
article attempts to understand how the two phenomena may be intertwined in the
dialectical process of analysing and re-analysing national identity and belonging, through
a critical interpretation of the anime series Ergo Proxy, released in 2006. The ideas
outlined below are relevant both to critical discourse studies and for prospective solutions
in the field of immigration policy. With Japan’s economy going into a tailspin due to the
explosion of the housing bubble in the 1990s, coupled with the detrimental effects of
negative population growth, more and more industries found themselves reliant on
immigrant labour for their survival, even as national political winds blew decisively against
opening the country to immigrants, due to unforeseen effects on “the Japanese way of
life.” As Japan entered the second decade of its persistent recessionary state, and the
government remained impassive to calls issued from several quarters of society to
liberalise immigration policy, even though many of these workers were urgently required
in such important sectors as construction and healthcare, clinging instead to outdated
racist notions of “pure Japaneseness,” a trickle of foreign workers continued to enter
Japan, becoming subject to abuse and human rights violations as their existence
continues to be systematically erased. The cultural intelligentsia of Japan did not long
remain unaware of this fact, however, and has remained active in depicting the plight of
immigrants in various genres of creative production.
EXCERPT
A celebratory conference of this kind should allow the keynote lecture to be somewhat
more personal than normal. It is with that in mind that I have linked the theme, ‘Southeast
Asia: Past, Present and Future’, to the person whose birthday we are celebrating. I do not
know if I can do that successfully but will try by pursuing some of Nick’s [Nicholas Tarling]
and my own life and professional experiences with imperial themes in Southeast Asian
history. Why ‘imperial themes’? Would not that be too much of a bias towards the past?