Japanese Diplomacy and Regionalism

Re-Exploring on Japanese Values Diplomacy

Japan’s values diplomacy was proposed by Tarou Asou Taro Aso in 2007. And in the period of Fukuda ruling, this diplomacy contemporarily withdrew from Japanese diplomatic stage, but its democratic values concept is still displayed in diplomatic activities. After Tarou Asou Taro Aso became the prime minister, what would be the position of values diplomacy in Japanese strategy and national policy?...

Japanese Aid Diplomacy in Africa: An Historical Analysis

At the Gleneagles Summit in 2005 the leaders of G8 agreed to debt cancellation for 18 highly indebted poor, including 14 African, countries. Japan reluctantly had to accept the cancellation, which clearly demonstrates the shift of the Japanese aid policy which for so long was based on loan-centred assistance. The history of the Japanese aid diplomacy in Africa could be divided into 5 stages: th...

Regionalism and Growth

Small Countries and Regionalism

The number of regional trade agreements has nearly doubled in the last four years. Interestingly, relatively small countries have put enormous effort into joining regional agreements with larger countries during this period. In this paper, we address the following question: why are small countries so eager to be a part of these agreements? We construct a general equilibrium model of a natural t...

Europe’s Continental Regionalism

This paper reviews the multiple forms of European continental regionalism, which takes the overall shape of a complex set of concentric circles, with a substructure of a core group within the EU based on the euro and Schengen areas, and several rings of neighbours outside, including the European Economic Area, the regions of the EU’s neighbourhood policy and finally some pan-European organisati...