Rethinking Japan Stockwin, Arthur; Ampiah, Kweku
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The authors argue that with the election of the Abe Government in December 2012, Japanese politics has entered a radically new phase they describe as the “2012 Political System.” The system began ...with the return to power of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), after three years in opposition, but in a much stronger electoral position than previous LDP-based administrations in earlier decades. Moreover, with the decline of previously endemic intra-party factionalism, the LDP has united around an essentially nationalist agenda never absent from the party’s ranks, but in the past was generally blocked, or modified, by factions of more liberal persuasion. Opposition weakness following the severe defeat of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) administration in 2012 has also enabled the Abe Government to establish a political stability largely lacking since the 1990s. The first four chapters deal with Japanese political development since 1945 and factors leading to the emergence of Abe Shinzō as Prime Minister in 2012. Chapter 5 examines the Abe Government’s flagship economic policy, dubbed “Abenomics.” The authors then analyse four highly controversial objectives promoted by the Abe Government: revision of the 1947 ‘Peace Constitution’; the introduction of a Secrecy Law; historical revision, national identity and issues of war apology; and revised constitutional interpretation permitting collective defence. In the final three chapters they turn to foreign policy, first examining relations with China, Russia and the two Koreas, second Japan and the wider world, including public diplomacy, economic relations and overseas development aid, and finally, the vexed question of how far Japanese policies are as reactive to foreign pressure. In the Conclusion, the authors ask how far right wing trends in Japan exhibit common causality with shifts to the right in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. They argue that although in Japan immigration has been a relatively minor factor, economic stagnation, demographic decline, a sense of regional insecurity in the face of challenges from China and North Korea, and widening gaps in life chances, bear comparison with trends elsewhere. Nevertheless, they maintain that “a more sane regional future may be possible in East Asia.”
The Gift in Antiquity Satlow, Michael
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The Gift in Antiquitypresents a collection of 14 original essays that apply French sociologist Marcel Mauss’s notion of gift-giving to the study of antiquity.Covers such wide-ranging topics as vows ...in the Hebrew Bible; ancient Greek wedding gifts; Hellenistic civic practices; Latin literature; Roman and Jewish burial practices; and Jewish and Christian religious giftsOrganizes essays around theoretical concerns rather than chronologicallyTakes an explicitly cross-cultural approach to the study of ancient history
This book investigates intractable conflicts and their main verbal manifestation - radical disagreement – and explores what can be done when conflict resolution fails.
The book identifies agonistic ...dialogue - dialogue between enemies - as the key to linguistic intractability. It suggests how agonistic dialogue can best be studied, explored, understood and managed even in the most severe political conflicts when negotiation, mediation, problem solving, dialogue for mutual understanding, and discourse ethics are unsuccessful. This approach of viewing radical disagreement as the central topic of analysis and conflict management is a new innovation in this field, and also supplements and enhances existing communicative transformational techniques. It also has wider implications for cognate fields, such as applied ethics, democratic theory, cultural studies and the philosophy of difference.
This book will be of great interest to students of conflict resolution, peace and conflict studies, ethnic conflict and International Relations in general.
Oliver Ramsbotham is Emeritus Professor of Conflict Resolution at the University of Bradford, UK, Chair of the Oxford Research Group, President of the Conflict Research Society and co-author of Conflict Resolution in Contemporary Conflict .
Prologue: Having the First Word Part 1: Radical Disagreement and Conflict Intractability 1. Radical Disagreement and Discourse Analysis 2. Radical Disagreement and Conflict Analysis 3. Radical Disagreement and Conflict Resolution Part 2: Taking Radical Disagreement Seriously 4. Methodology: Studying Agonistic Dialogue 5. Phenomenology: Exploring Agonistic Dialogue 6. Epistemology: Understanding Agonistic Dialogue 7. Praxis: Managing Agonistic Dialogue 8. Re-entry: Feeding back into Conflict Settlement and Conflict Transformation Part 3: Radical Disagreement and the Future 9. Radical Disagreement and Human Difference 10. Radical Disagreement and Human Survival. Epilogue: Having the Last Word
Oliver Ramsbotham is Emeritus Professor of Conflict Resolution at the University of Bradford, UK, Chair of the Oxford Research Group, President of the Conflict Research Society and co-author of Conflict Resolution in Contemporary Conflict .
After the horrors of the First World War a dialogue began between European statesmen seeking some form of European integration as a way of achieving lasting peace. During the inter-war period this ...idea started to attract support in Britain even though Britain's strategic and economic interests remained focused outside Europe. This book explores Britain's relations with the continent between 1918 and 1945, focussing on diplomatic and military responses to the major crises and examining attitudes to the idea of Europe in the broader context of relations with the Empire, Commonwealth and the USA.
A significant contribution to the study of cross-cultural communication--and accommodation--in the ethnically, religiously and linguistically diverse world of the medieval Eastern Mediterranean as ...reflected in Byzantine, Latin and Islamic archival sources and chancery traditions.
Det är allmänt bekant att den amerikansk-ryska dialogen «återställdes» 2009 under presidenterna Obama och Medvedev men tveksamt huruvida denna symbolpolitiska utfästelse även skapade förutsättningar ...för bättre, eller närmare, mellanstatliga relationer. I det följande företas en analys av återverkningar av de signaler om förnyat samarbete som sänts av respektive politisk ledning inom multilaterala fora där både USA och Ryssland deltar, med särskild tonvikt på Organisationen för Säkerhet och Samarbete i Europa (OSSE) och FN:s Säkerhetsråd. Det övergripande intrycket är att amerikansk-rysk diplomatisk samverkan 2009–2011 förblev fortsatt begränsad, i några spörsmål mer fokuserad, men att man från båda sidor medvetet undvek att «störa» varandras prioriterade intressen. En specifik iakttagelse från OSSE-samarbetet är att Rysslands diplomatiska initiativ var bättre underbyggda än tidigare, och kan förväntas få starkare genomslag i framtiden, åtminstone på det europiska fastlandet. Till skillnad från USA, som handlar via Säkerhetsrådet när man tror sig kunna skapa en koalition för ett visst ändamål, var rysk FN-diplomati 2009–2011 alltjämt defensiv.
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Like all professions, diplomacy has spawned its own specialized terminology and it is this lexicon which provides the thematic spine of this dictionary. The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of ...Diplomacy also includes entries on legal terms and major figures who have occupied the diplomatic scene or have written influentially about it over the last half millennium, as well as some on international organizations of special significance. This third edition has been updated with new entries, for example on e-diplomacy, Ottawa process, R2P, stovepiping, and transformational diplomacy. The result is an even tighter focus on the language of diplomacy, while making coverage of it even more comprehensive than before. Students of international politics and related subjects as well as junior members of diplomatic services can turn to this book for assistance in understanding the technicalities of diplomatic and associated language.
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There is no real competition. The only possible candidate is Chas Freeman's Diplomat's Dictionary, but it is not a proper dictionary. Most of the entries consist entirely of quotations (some multiple ones), the author supplying his own text only when he could not find a definition with which he agreed elsewhere. There remain huge gaps, and there is very little cross-referencing between entries – instead there is a 100-page index which takes up more than 20 per cent of the book. In short, it is little more than a collection of aphorisms under alphabetically organized catchwords, interleaved with the occasional term defined by the author.
The internet provides the strongest competition. There are a few excellent, specialized glossaries, e.g. on 'Eurospeak' and treaty terms (see http://untreaty.un.org/English/guide.asp#exchange). However, there are no good general pages and it is often extremely difficult to find crisp, authoritative definitions of technical terms.
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Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the Third Edition Notes on Using the Dictionary The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Diplomacy Bibliography
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G.R. BERRIDGE Emeritus Professor of International Politics at the University of Leicester, UK. His previous works include Talking to the Enemy (1994), Diplomacy: Theory and Practice, 4th edition (2010),and The Counter-Revolution in Diplomacy and Other Essays (2011). He was until the end of 2002 the General Editor of Palgrave Macmillan's Studies in Diplomacy Series. LORNA LLOYD is Senior Research Fellow at Keele University, UK. She has served as Convenor of BISA's Group on Diplomacy and has twice chaired the International Law Section of the ISA. Currently, she is on the committee of BISA's International History Group. She is Editor of Continuum's 'Key Studies in Diplomacy'. Her publications include Diplomacy with a Difference: The Commonwealth Office of High Commissioner 1880-2006 (2007).
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Second edition of A Dictionary of Diplomacy , published in 2003, was highly successful Fully updated with new entries (for example e-diplomacy) and more traditional terms have been slimmed down Revised from a more 'British' dictionary to including more American and French terms Only one competing dictionary: Diplomat's Dictionary by former US diplomat Chas Freeman Regular updates and information on the Dictionary can be found on the G.R. Berridge's homepage
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Indispensable for students of diplomacy and junior members of diplomatic services, this dictionary not only covers diplomacy's jargon but also includes entries on legal terms, political events, international organizations, e-Diplomacy, and major figures who have occupied the diplomatic scene or have written about it over the last half millennium.
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This third edition of the highly successful Dictionary of Diplomacy has an even tighter focus on the language of diplomacy, while making coverage of it even more comprehensive than before
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'...very useful, informative, and exceedingly well-written reference tool.' - Mark Y. Herring, American Reference Books Annual 'This dictionary will be of great benefit to all those who have to use or understand diplomatic terms - students and teachers of international relations, professional diplomats, and journalists.' - L. N Rangarajan, International Affairs 'This volume … will demystify the language of diplomatic etiquette to students and casual readers alike.' - Malcolm Madden, Library, Royal Institute of International Affairs, UK 'The authors are to be commended in producing this dictionary. It will be extremely valuable to students, of course, but anyone interested in international relations will find it helpful in understanding the nature of modern diplomacy.' - Ian McGibbon, New Zealand International Review
'Most importantly...what remains unchanged is the value of this book as a reference source for anyone concerned with diplomacy...Libraries serving any of these clinet groups should obtain a copy.' - Tony Chalcraft, Reference Reviews
