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Cargando... Koizumi Diplomacy: Japan's Kantei Approach to Foreign and Defense Affairs (2007)por Tomohito Shinoda
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Japan's policymaking strategy in foreign and defense affairs changed dramatically in 2001 after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi took the helm of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Following a series of bland and short-lived prime ministers, Koizumi's infusion of fresh energy into a tired and opaque party has been compared with Tony Blair's successful revamping of New Labour in the U.K. Koizumi, however, had a weak power base in the party and limited diplomatic experience. How, then, was he able to exercise leadership? Tomohito Shinoda analyzes the prime minister's role in policymaking, focusing on the assistance he receives from the Kantei, or Cabinet Secretariat, the Japanese equivalent of the American president's White House cabinet. Since 2001, the Japanese government's center of gravity for foreign policy has shifted from the traditionally dominant Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Kantei, which allowed Koizumi to exercise a top-down style of decision-making. Through case studies and personal interviews with former prime ministers and cabinet secretaries, Shinoda looks at how Koizumi's new system operates on a practical level - how, for example, major post-2001 anti-terrorism legislation has been initiated and prepared by the Kantei-and compares its successes and failures with those of the U.S. system. With frank and engaging commentary by former officials, this book makes a unique contribution to the understanding of contemporary Japanese political affairs. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The book looks at how Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro was able to centralize diplomacy in the office of the prime minister during the early to mid 2000s. This diplomacy was made possible by several reforms during the 90s and 2000s: the 1994 electoral changes, the 1999 political changes, and the 2001 central government reforms strengthened the Cabinet Secretariat.
The author’s research strategy includes interviews with three former prime ministers and a number of chief cabinet secretaries (CCS), extensive study of the events, and concludes with some impressive theory-building, which expands on existing theories of prime minsterial power and critiques other explanations.
Along with Professor Shinoda's other works on the Japanese prime minister, this book rightly deserves to be called a class. ( )