Open Access
Revisiting the reactive state : Japanese foreign policy and beyond
Loading...
Files
RSC PP 2023 07_V1.pdf (498.36 KB)
Full text in Open-Access
License
Attribution 4.0 International
Cadmus Permanent Link
Full-text via DOI
ISBN
ISSN
1830-1541
Issue Date
Type of Publication
Keyword(s)
LC Subject Heading
Other Topic(s)
EUI Research Cluster(s)
Initial version
Published version
Succeeding version
Preceding version
Published version part
Earlier different version
Initial format
Author(s)
Citation
EUI; RSC; Policy Paper; 2023/07; Global Governance Programme
Cite
CALDER, Kent E., Revisiting the reactive state : Japanese foreign policy and beyond, EUI, RSC, Policy Paper, 2023/07, Global Governance Programme - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75866
Abstract
States may be considered ‘reactive’ when they are capable of action (as opposed to being ‘autistic’), but oriented toward responding to prior external stimuli rather than making policy directly (Calder, World Politics, July, 1988). Post-World War II Japanese foreign policy has exhibited this ‘reactive’ pattern to a pronounced degree. Over the past decade, nation states generally have grown more reactive, under pressures of globalization . Japan, however, has been an outlier , with a strengthened Prime Ministerial office allowing that country to move in a converse direction to the global trend.