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Peacebuilding and the ‘Human Securitization’ of Japan’s Foreign Aid

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The Securitization of Foreign Aid

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This chapter analyses the evolution of Japan’s international security cooperation since the 1990s, based on the expansion of a security perspective within the official development assistance (ODA) programme and the parallel dispatch of the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) overseas. It asks why the securitization of aid in Japan occurred the way it did and how security thinking has affected aid allocations. It assesses whether the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have used this new security thinking to expand aid activities and secure budgetary resources.

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  1. Pedro Amakasu Raposo Carvalho
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  1. University of Ottawa, Canada

    Stephen Brown (Professor of Political Science) (Professor of Political Science)

  2. German Development Institute, Germany

    Jörn Grävingholt (Senior Researcher) (Senior Researcher)

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Carvalho, P.A.R., Potter, D.M. (2016). Peacebuilding and the ‘Human Securitization’ of Japan’s Foreign Aid. In: Brown, S., Grävingholt, J. (eds) The Securitization of Foreign Aid. Rethinking International Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56882-3_5

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