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Faced with the paradox of a Japan which appears on the one hand unwilling and unable to take more international responsibilities and to become more ‘normal’, and on the other hand a Japan which tenaciously sticks to its national interests and is actually quite successful at protecting these interests, we chose to look at Japan’s foreign policy from a perspective of ‘outcomes’ and to use a wider understanding of the concept of power.
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Drifte, R. (1996). Conclusions. In: Japan’s Foreign Policy in the 1990s. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372368_6
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