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• Title:
  Revision of Japan’s Foreign Policy After Donald Trump’s Electoral Victory
• Creator:
  Zakowski, Karol
• Contributor:
  University of Lodz, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Department of Asian Studies;
  Karol Żakowski - PhD (2010) and habilitation (2016) in political science, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of International and Political Studies, University of Lodz. He was a visiting scholar at the Kwansei Gakuin University (2008–2009), Keio University (2012–2013, Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship) and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo (2016), as well as a participant of a Japanese language course in the Japan Foundation Japanese Language Institute, Kansai (2006), and an internship in the Japanese Diet (2009). He is a member of Nihon Seiji Gakkai (Japanese Political Science Association), Association for Asian Studies, International Political Science Association, European Association for Japanese Studies, and British Association for Japanese Studies. His recent monographs include: Decision-Making Reform in Japan: The DPJ’s Failed Attempt at a Politician-Led Government (Routledge 2015) and Japan’s Foreign Policy Making: Central Government Reforms, Decision-Making Processes, and Diplomacy (co-authored with Beata Bochorodycz and Marcin Socha, Springer 2018).;
  karol.zakowski@uni.lodz.pl
• Description:
  The article analyzes the process of modification of Japan’s foreign policy after Donald Trump’s election as US president. As short- and middle-range aims of Japan’s diplomatic strategy were outlined with expectation of victory of Hillary Clinton, Tokyo was forced to abruptly change its policy. Relying on the neoclassical realist theory, the article examines the complex interaction between the external factors, such as security threats from North Korea or China, and domestic factors both in Japan and the US, that is personal, institutional, societal and economic determinants. It is argued that while it was strategic convergence between Tokyo and Washington that enabled relatively smooth cooperation between Prime Minister Abe and President Trump, internal factors, such as right-wing credentials of both decision makers, distorted and to some extent facilitated this process.;
  This article is a result of research conducted as a part of project “Evolution of the Core Executive under Prime Minister Abe’s Government in Japan” financed by the National Science Centre, Poland (DEC-2016/23/B/HS5/00059). In 2017 the author received the prize of the University of Lodz Foundation.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2019.08.23;
  2019
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Lodz University Press
• Relation:
  International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal; 1;
  23
• Subject:
  Japan;
  foreign policy;
  Donald Trump;
  Japan–US relations
• Identifier:
  1641-4233;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/30029 ;
  2300-8695;
  10.18778/1641-4233.23.06
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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