Description: Bringing together issues that are highly relevant to contemporary Japanese foreign policy, this comprehensive text analyzes the formation of the North Korea policy in the context of great power relations in East Asia.
Review Quotes:
'North Korea Policy provides a worthwhile contribution to the literature on both the issue of North Korea in East Asian international relations and on Japan's role in this issue. It brings together a wide range of perspectives and constructs an original approach to the topic.'- H.D.P. Envall, electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies, 2008
'This book will be of especial interest to scholars and policy makers interested in Northeast Asian relations and foreign policy. Both will benefit form a better understanding of the relatively understudies issue of Japan's influence on other powers' foreign policy.' Ramon Pacheco Pardo, East Asia, 2008