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Japan’s Foreign Policy Making

Central Government Reforms, Decision-Making Processes, and Diplomacy

By: Karol Zakowski,Beata Bochorodycz,Marcin Socha

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Japan’s Foreign Policy Making

Central Government Reforms, Decision-Making Processes, and Diplomacy

By: Karol Zakowski,Beata Bochorodycz,Marcin Socha

This book evaluates the impact of the 2001 central government reforms on effective foreign policy making in Japan. It puts a special focus on the evolution of the domestic institutional factors and decision-making processes behind Japan’s foreign policy, while also analyzing the development of Japan’s external relations with various other countries, such as the US, China and North Korea. Adhering to the neoclassical realist approach, the authors show that, thanks to a more independent Kantei-based form of diplomacy, Japan’s prime ministers were able to strategically respond to international developments, and to pursue their own diplomatic endeavors more boldly. At the same time, they demonstrate that the effectiveness of this proactive posture was still heavily dependent on the decision-makers’ ability to form cohesive coalitions and select suitable institutional tools, which enabled them to influence domestic and international affairs.

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Fukushima and Civil Society

The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement from a Socio-Political Perspective

By: Beata Bochorodycz

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Fukushima and Civil Society

The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement from a Socio-Political Perspective

By: Beata Bochorodycz

This book analyzes the impact of the Fukushima disaster on civil society in Japan with particular attention to the anti-nuclear movement, focusing on its development, repertoire of action, mobilization strategies, modes of operation, and impact on the state’s energy policy. Combining social movement theory and civil society theory, the author draws on extensive fieldwork in Japan to explore the context of the sociopolitical situation in Japan up to the Fukushima accident and to offer a typological description and analysis of the anti-nuclear movement that emerged after the disaster. Through an analysis of the relationship between the power elite and the anti-nuclear movement organizations, this volume considers the influences exercised by the ruling elites on civil society and vice versa, thus assessing the effects of the anti-nuclear movement on the state policy and the society. A comprehensive account of the anti-nuclear movement in post-Fukushima Japan, embedded within a broader perspective of the movement’s historical development, contemporary political structures, and opportunities, Fukushima and Civil Society will appeal to scholars of sociology and politics with an interest in social movements. Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000632717

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Fukushima and Civil Society

The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement from a Socio-Political Perspective

By: Beata Bochorodycz

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The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement from a Socio-Political Perspective

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Japan’s Foreign Policy Making

Central Government Reforms, Decision-Making Processes, and Diplomacy

By: Karol Zakowski,Beata Bochorodycz,Marcin Socha

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Central Government Reforms, Decision-Making Processes, and Diplomacy

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Ryszard Kapuscinski

Biography of a Writer

By: Beata Nowacka,Zygmunt Ziątek

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Ryszard Kapuscinski

Biography of a Writer

By: Beata Nowacka,Zygmunt Ziątek

An award-winning writer and a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Ryszard Kapuściński (1932-2007) was a celebrated Polish journalist and author. Praised for the lengths to which he would go to get a story, Kapuściński gained an extraordinary knowledge of the major global events of the second half of the twentieth century and shared it with his diverse audience. The first posthumous monograph on the writer's life and work, Ryszard Kapuściński confronts the mixed reception of Kapuściński's tendency to merge the conventions of reportage with the artistry of literature. Beata Nowacka and Zygmunt Ziątek discuss the writer's accounts of the decolonization of Africa and his work in Asia and South America between 1956 and 1981, a period during which Kapuściński reported on twenty-seven revolutions and coups. They argue that the journalistic tradition is not in conflict with Kapuściński's meditations on the deep meanings of these events, and that his first-person involvement in his text was not an indulgence detracting from his journalistic adventures but a well-thought-out conception of eyewitness testimony, developing the moral and philosophical message of the stories. Exploring the whole of Kapuściński's achievements, Nowacka and Ziątek identify a constant tension between a strictly journalistic position and what in Poland is called literary reportage, located on the border between journalism and artistic prose. Kapuściński's desire and dedication to make more of journalistic writing is the driving force behind the excellence and readability that have made his legendary books so controversial - and so widely celebrated.

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