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North Korea's contemporary relations with Japan have been fraught
with tension. Tactics employed by Pyongyang have included
abductions of Japanese citizens, missile launches over Japanese
territory, intrusions into Japanese sovereign waters, and nuclear
tests in defiance of Japanese and international condemnation. In
light of the security risk the DPRK poses, this book examines how
the state, market, and society in Japan have framed North Korea as
a salient evil, and have in turn constructed and manipulated the
risks posed by their neighbour. Using the example of Japan's
post-Cold War responses to North Korea, this book studies the
concept of risk in international relations, and its interactive
relationship with domestic civil society. It focuses on how
security risks are identified and re-evaluated by policy makers,
mass media, and civil society stakeholders, and in doing so
disentangles the complex processes by which Japan has framed and
recalibrated risks in response to the DPRK. By exploring how risks
identified with Pyongyang's behaviour towards Japan have been
mediated between the state, market, and society via mainstream
discourse in Japan, Ra Mason highlights the way in which these
processes are causally linked to key actors' conceptions of risk.
Indeed, this book provides an original theoretical framework -
distinguishing between risk and traditional threat perceptions -
through which to address issues of national security and identity,
as well as the norms which inform them. Japan's Relations with
North Korea and the Recalibration of Risk will be welcomed by
students and scholars across a wide range of fields including
Japanese politics, Asia-Pacific studies, international relations,
and security studies.
The increase of new complex security challenges and the heightening
significance of a diverse array of actors has simultaneously posed
a challenge to traditional perspectives on international relations
and foreign policy and created an opportunity for new concepts to
be applied. Conventional explanations of Japan's foreign policy
have provided us with theoretically predetermined understandings
and fallacious predictions. Reformulating risk in its application
to the study of international relations and foreign policy, this
volume promises new insights into the analysis of contemporary
foreign policy in East Asia and Japan's post-Cold War international
relations in particular.
The increase of new complex security challenges and the heightening
significance of a diverse array of actors has simultaneously posed
a challenge to traditional perspectives on international relations
and foreign policy and created an opportunity for new concepts to
be applied. Conventional explanations of Japan's foreign policy
have provided us with theoretically predetermined understandings
and fallacious predictions. Reformulating risk in its application
to the study of international relations and foreign policy, this
volume promises new insights into the analysis of contemporary
foreign policy in East Asia and Japan's post-Cold War international
relations in particular.
Japan's unusual position in the realm of international politics
encapsulates a three-fold juxtaposition: both in and out of Asia,
both occupied by and a close ally of the United States, and both a
key trade partner and a strategic rival of China. Whilst
international relations theory offers a number of ways to analyse
these relations, this book instead utilizes the concept of risk to
provide an innovative perspective on Japan's relations with China,
North Korea and the US. The book elucidates how risk, potential
harm and harm are faced disproportionately by certain groups in
society. This is demonstrated by providing an empirically rich
analysis of the domestic implications of security relations with
China, North Korea and the United States through the presence of US
troops in Okinawa. Beginning with a theoretical discussion of risk,
it goes on to demonstrate how the concept of risk adds value to the
study of international relations in three senses. First, the
concept helps to break down the boundaries between the
international and domestic. Second, the focus on risk and the
everyday directs us to ask basic questions about the costs and
benefits of a security policy meant to secure the national
population. Third, what implications do these two points have for
governance? The question is one of governance as Japan's externally
oriented security policy produces domestic insecurity shared
disproportionately, not equally, as this volume makes clear.
Developing the theory of risk as a tool for understanding
international relations, this book will be of great interest to
students and scholars of Asian politics, Japanese politics,
international relations and security studies, as well as to policy
makers and practitioners working in the field.
North Korea's contemporary relations with Japan have been fraught
with tension. Tactics employed by Pyongyang have included
abductions of Japanese citizens, missile launches over Japanese
territory, intrusions into Japanese sovereign waters, and nuclear
tests in defiance of Japanese and international condemnation. In
light of the security risk the DPRK poses, this book examines how
the state, market, and society in Japan have framed North Korea as
a salient evil, and have in turn constructed and manipulated the
risks posed by their neighbour. Using the example of Japan's
post-Cold War responses to North Korea, this book studies the
concept of risk in international relations, and its interactive
relationship with domestic civil society. It focuses on how
security risks are identified and re-evaluated by policy makers,
mass media, and civil society stakeholders, and in doing so
disentangles the complex processes by which Japan has framed and
recalibrated risks in response to the DPRK. By exploring how risks
identified with Pyongyang's behaviour towards Japan have been
mediated between the state, market, and society via mainstream
discourse in Japan, Ra Mason highlights the way in which these
processes are causally linked to key actors' conceptions of risk.
Indeed, this book provides an original theoretical framework -
distinguishing between risk and traditional threat perceptions -
through which to address issues of national security and identity,
as well as the norms which inform them. Japan's Relations with
North Korea and the Recalibration of Risk will be welcomed by
students and scholars across a wide range of fields including
Japanese politics, Asia-Pacific studies, international relations,
and security studies.
Japan's unusual position in the realm of international politics
encapsulates a three-fold juxtaposition: both in and out of Asia,
both occupied by and a close ally of the United States, and both a
key trade partner and a strategic rival of China. Whilst
international relations theory offers a number of ways to analyse
these relations, this book instead utilizes the concept of risk to
provide an innovative perspective on Japan's relations with China,
North Korea and the US. The book elucidates how risk, potential
harm and harm are faced disproportionately by certain groups in
society. This is demonstrated by providing an empirically rich
analysis of the domestic implications of security relations with
China, North Korea and the United States through the presence of US
troops in Okinawa. Beginning with a theoretical discussion of risk,
it goes on to demonstrate how the concept of risk adds value to the
study of international relations in three senses. First, the
concept helps to break down the boundaries between the
international and domestic. Second, the focus on risk and the
everyday directs us to ask basic questions about the costs and
benefits of a security policy meant to secure the national
population. Third, what implications do these two points have for
governance? The question is one of governance as Japan's externally
oriented security policy produces domestic insecurity shared
disproportionately, not equally, as this volume makes clear.
Developing the theory of risk as a tool for understanding
international relations, this book will be of great interest to
students and scholars of Asian politics, Japanese politics,
international relations and security studies, as well as to policy
makers and practitioners working in the field.
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