International Security Studies (ISS) has changed and diversified in many ways since 1945. This book provides the first intellectual history of the development of the subject in that period. It explains how ISS evolved from an initial concern with the strategic consequences of superpower rivalry and nuclear weapons, to its current diversity in which environmental, economic, human and other securities sit alongside military security, and in which approaches ranging from traditional Realist analysis to Feminism and Post-colonialism are in play. It sets out the driving forces that shaped debates in ISS, shows what makes ISS a single conversation across its diversity, and gives an authoritative account of debates on all the main topics within ISS. This is an unparalleled survey of the literature and institutions of ISS that will be an invaluable guide for all students and scholars of ISS, whether traditionalist, ‘new agenda’ or critical. • The first book to tell the post-1945 story of International Security Studies and offer an integrated historical sociology of the whole field • Opens the door to a long-overdue conversation about what ISS is and where it should be going • Provides a detailed institutional account of ISS in terms of its journals, departments, think tanks and funding sources

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The Evolution of International Security Studies

The theory and practice of community-based self-management and government–community co-management is examined in terms of the potential of these management systems to address some of the major biol...

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Local Fisheries Co-management: A Review of International Experiences and Their Implications for Salmon Management in British Columbia

Participatory research supporting community-based fishery management

Postwar management of whaling was marked by two major policy changes: the 1974 adoption of a more restrictive set of management procedures and the 1982 adoption of a moratorium on commercial whaling. In both cases, U.S. government efforts to ensure compliance with the International Whaling Commission (IWC) decisions were central to the outcome. Yet no government's choices can be understood without examining how decision makers were influenced by three nongovernmental groups—an economic interest group of whaling industry managers, an expert epistemic community of cetologists, and an issue-oriented lobbying coalition of environmentalists—which vied for influence nationally and transnationally. The epistemic community of cetologists shaped particular policy choices only in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Earlier, it was eclipsed by the industry managers and, later, by the environmentalists. However, it had sufficient continuing influence to limit the range of policy options and thereby prevent the adoption of the most consumptionist alternatives in the 1940s and 1950s and of the most preservationist ones in recent years.

Whalers, cetologists, environmentalists, and the international management of whaling

Territorial disputes between governments generate a significant amount of uncertainty for economic actors. Settled boundary agreements produce benefits to economic agents on both sides of the borde...

Rules over Real Estate Trade, Territorial Conflict, and International Borders as Institution

In the early 1980s Japan adopted a "comprehensive security" (sig6 anzen hosho) policy with greater emphasis on economic and diplomatic means than on military means for pursuing the nation's security. The idea of comprehensive security was a natural outgrowth of Japan's postwar experience with national security issues and a reasonable conclusion to a careful examination of its security environment in the late 1970s. Since then, however, the global political economy has undergone revolutionary changes with far-reaching implications for Japan's regional environment and for its security. This calls for a renewed assessment of the comprehensive security policy and its applicability in the altered regional context.

Japan's Comprehensive Security Policy: A New East Asian Environment

International migration and other types of cross-border movement are becoming an important part of international relations in Northeast Asia. In this pioneering study, experts on China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and Russia examine the political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of the interaction between border-crossing individuals and host communities. The book highlights the challenges facing national and local leaders in each country and suggests needed changes in national and international policies. The authors analyze population trends and migration patterns in each country: Chinese migration to the Russian Far East; Chinese, Koreans, and Russians in Japan; North Koreans in China; and migration issues in South Korea and Mongolia. The book introduces a wealth of empirical material and insight to both international migration studies and Northeast Asian area studies.

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Crossing national borders : human migration issues in Northeast Asia

Introduction: Northeast Asia as a Region T.Akaha PART I: OVERVIEW OF NORTHEAST ASIA Northeast Asia at a Historical Turning Point R.Scalapino Historical Perspectives of Relations within Northeast Asia L.Buszynski Mutual Perceptions among the Great Powers in Northeast Asia G.Rozman PART II: MAJOR POWERS' INTERESTS AND PERSPECTIVES Northeast Asia: A View from Pacific-Russia V.Ivanov A Paradigm Shift in Russo-Japanese Relations T.Akaha Japan's Views of Northeast Asia Regional Economic Cooperation: Bilateral Priorities and Multilateral Experiments S.Anderson Economic and Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia: A Chinese Perspective W.Hu Sino-Japanese Relations: The Economic-Security Nexus P.F.Meyer PART III: SMALL POWERS' INTERESTS AND PERSPECTIVES Korea's Perspective on Regional Economic Cooperation K.Y.Jeong & J.Mo Korea's Perspective on Economic and Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia C.Moon & D.W.Ko Mongolian Perspective on Northeast Asian Regional Development T.Batbayar PART IV: REFORM, CRISIS, AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES: SECURITY IMPLICATIONS The Economic Crisis in the Russian Far East P.Minakir & T.Akaha The North Korean Crisis and Regional Cooperation A.Mansourov Demographic Changes in Northeast Asia and Their Implications for Regional Stability M.D. Van Arsdol, Jr. PART V: NONGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION The Northeast Asian Economic Forum: Achievements and Future Prospects M.Valencia Nongovernmental Initiatives in Japan for Regional Cooperation T.Shirasu & L.Sim-Yee Nongovernmental Initiatives in Korea for Northeast Asian Cooperation K.H.Jung Conclusion: Nationalism vs. Regionalism in Northeast Asia T.Akaha

Politics and Economics in Northeast Asia: Nationalism and Regionalism in Contention

The radically changed regional security environment in the post‐cold war Asia‐Pacific poses serious challenges to Japan's security policy. Tokyo must develop a new strategic view of the region to complement its tendency to emphasize security based on economic growth and interdependence. Japan's relations with the United States, Russia and China have far‐reaching, long‐term regional security implications, yet Tokyo is barely managing to respond to bilateral political and economic issues as they arise. While the waning of the cold war security threat and budgetary considerations are putting increasing constraints on Tokyo's spending for both defence and foreign economic assistance, there are conflicting international demands and fears concerning expanded Japanese international security roles. At the same time, Tokyo's desire to participate more actively in United Nations peacekeeping and to gain a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council is hampered by the domestic constitutional debat...

Japan's security agenda in the post‐cold war era

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Tsuneo Akaha

Papers

Japan's Comprehensive Security Policy: A New East Asian Environment

Crossing national borders : human migration issues in Northeast Asia

Politics and Economics in Northeast Asia: Nationalism and Regionalism in Contention

Japan's security agenda in the post‐cold war era

Japan in global ocean politics