Dobson, H.J. (2004) Japan and the G8 Evian Summit: Bilateralism, East Asianism and Multilateralization. Working Paper. University of Toronto
Abstract
This article has four aims: (1) to supplement an extant literature on Japan’s role in the G7/8 summit process by cataloguing events during the 2003 Group of Eight (G8) Summit1 held in Evian, France, from the Japanese government’s point of view; (2) to highlight the main actors involved in this process, their objectives, and the degree of success in their ability to achieve these objectives at Evian; (3) to demonstrate how the Japanese government has instrumentalized a multilateral forum, namely the G8, in order to pursue the resolution of what is essentially a bilateral issue – the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korean agents (racchi jiken) – a strategy that it adopted in the 1990s unsuccessfully to seek resolution of the Northern Territories’ dispute, but is becoming increasingly evident in other areas of its foreign policy; and (4) to review Japan’s traditional role in the summit as representative of Asia and discuss whether this will come under threat with the limited, but nevertheless precedent-setting, participation of China in the Evian Summit.
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Item Type: | Monograph |
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Authors/Creators: |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author 2004 |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of East Asian Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 23 Feb 2016 16:12 |
Last Modified: | 23 Feb 2016 16:12 |
Published Version: | http://www.g8.utoronto.ca/governance/index.htm |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Toronto |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:90615 |