Deconstructing Japan's Image of South Korea

What role does identity play in foreign policy? How might identity impact on Japan's relations with South Korea? This book takes identity theorizing in International Relations theory a step further by attempting to account for a resilient collective identity that informs policy makers throughout time and space.

'...Deconstructing Japan's Image of South Korea is an original and innovative addition to the literature on Japan's international relations.' - International Journal of the Asia-Pacific

Autorentext
TAKU TAMAKI is Lecturer of International Relations at Loughborough University, UK.

Inhalt
PART I: IDENTITY THEORISING IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND SOCIAL THEORY The Discourses of Identity in International Relations Theories Identity Representation and the Context of Interactions PART II: HISTORICAL ELABORATION OF JAPANESE COLLECTIVE IDENTITY AND JAPANESE-KOREAN RELATIONS: 1875-1989 A Genealogy of Japanese Identity Representation Japanese-(South) Korean Relations in Historical Context PART III: JAPANESE-SOUTH KOREAN RELATIONS: 1990-1998 The Politics of Memory in the 1990s The Diplomatic Relations: 1990-1998 The Economic Context of Interactions in the 1990s