Japan’s Evolving Foreign Policy Doctrine

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Japan’s Evolving Foreign Policy Doctrine is written by Bert Edström and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1349273031 (ISBN 10) and 9781349273034 (ISBN 13).

During half a century after the war Japan's economy was built up from scratch to the world's number two, while its foreign policy has been described by many as passive and even verging on being non-existent. As a contrast, this study evinces how the foundations of Japan's foreign policy were laid in the early postwar period, and how postwar policies have been characterized by pervasive continuity, guided by distinct national goals and expressed in clear-cut national role conceptions.