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Harvard Professor Susan J. Pharr observes that ‘Japan’s foreign policy is a major enigma of the 1990s. According to some, Japan is mired in ‘immobilisms’, passive, adrift without goals — a ‘reactive state’ lacking the will or capability to play a more assertive and active role in the world.’1
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Fukushima, A. (1999). From Free Rider to Navigator. In: Japanese Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403915924_6
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