Globalization, Democratization and Asian Leadership
Subtitle: Power Sharing, Foreign Policy and Society in the Philippines and Japan
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780754615392
Subjects: Central government policies; International relations; Political science & theory; Political structure & processes; Politics/International Relations; Political Ideologies - Democracy; International Relations - General; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics and government; Japan; Philippines; Political Process - Leadership; Foreign relations; 1945-; 1946-
Genres: Foreign policy analysis; Comparative politics; International history; Asian studies
First sentence: Corporate infatuation with globalization may remind future historians of nineteenth-century Social Darwinism.
Description: Summary

This book is an application and a critique of democratic theory to the domestic and international politics of foreign policy making.

The foreign policies of presidents, prime ministers and their foreign secretaries can be influenced by the preferences of domestic and international nongovernmental actors, as well as those of other governments. Representative democracy, media power, citizen activism and the globalization of politics and telecommunications, for example, have accelerated changes in the sharing of power. This book focuses on Philippines and Japan where, willingly and unwillingly, foreign policy executives share power with individuals and groups inside and outside of government bureaucracies and their societies.

The book retells the foreign policy narratives of regional cooperation, military relations and official development assistance ("foreign aid"), revealing how executive foreign policy makers and civil society organizations share power and succeed or fail in a globalizing, democratizing world.

A variety of published, unpublished and declassified sources provide journalists, scholars, government practitioners and global citizens with a sophisticated understanding of the domestic politics of foreign policy making, as well as its intergovernmental and transnational side.
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Table of contents: title: Democratization, Globalization and Plural Governance
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label: 1; label: 2
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title: Social Inference in Foreign Policy Analysis; label: 3
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title: Spreading the Risks: Co-marketing ASEAN during a Hot Election; title: Information Asymmetry in Electoral Foreign Policy
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label: 4; title: Semi-dictatorship and Democracy in Foreign Policy Making
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label: 5; title: ASEAN Free Riders and Senate Resistance
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label: 6; label: 7
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title: Guiding Foreign Aid with Contested Standards; title: Domesticating and Transnationalizing Japan's ODA Policy: NGO Agendas and Limits to Change
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label: 8; title: Power Sharing, Plural Governance, and Foreign Policy Success in Globalizing Asia
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label: 9; class: part
title: Reference List; class: part
title: Index