Outputs (3)

Japan's Middle East policy: ‘still mercantile realism’ (2012)
Journal Article
Miyagi, Y. (2012). Japan's Middle East policy: ‘still mercantile realism’. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 12(2), 287-315. https://doi.org/10.1093/irap/lcr022

Japan's vital interests, both its energy security and US alliance, are at stake in the Middle East. Change in Japan's Middle East policy is charted over three periods, from a stance independent of the United States to one increasingly aligned with US... Read More about Japan's Middle East policy: ‘still mercantile realism’.

'Foreign Policy Making under Koizumi: Norms and Japan's role in the 2003 Iraq war' (2009)
Journal Article
Miyagi, Y. (2009). 'Foreign Policy Making under Koizumi: Norms and Japan's role in the 2003 Iraq war'. Foreign Policy Analysis, 5(4), 349-366. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-8594.2009.00097.x

Japan's policy toward the 2003 Iraq War is a test of the constructivist argument about the weight of norms as opposed to material systemic factors in foreign policy making. Constructions of external threats and interests were contested between a larg... Read More about 'Foreign Policy Making under Koizumi: Norms and Japan's role in the 2003 Iraq war'.

'Japan: A Bandwagoning 'Lopsided Power'' (2006)
Book Chapter
Miyagi, Y. (2006). 'Japan: A Bandwagoning 'Lopsided Power''. In R. Fawn, & R. Hinnebusch (Eds.), The Iraq war : causes and consequences (103-114). Lynne Rienner