Japan and Asian-Pacific security: regionalization,entrenched bilateralism and incipient multilateralism |
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Authors: | Nobuo Okawara Peter J. Katzenstein |
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Affiliation: | School of Politics , University of New South Wales , Campbell, ACT, Australia |
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Abstract: | This paper traces the formal and informal aspects of Japan's robust bilateralism on issues of external and internal security and discusses a variety of embryonic multilateral arrangements that have sprung up in the 1990s. Asian-Pacific multilateralism is not yet a strong and unquestioned collectively held norm in either Tokyo or any of the major capitals in the Asia-Pacific. What matters instead are political practices shaped by a strong tradition of bilateralism and, only very recently, by an incipient multilateralism. |
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Keywords: | Internal National Security Bilateralism Multilateralism |
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