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1. Japan's Relations with Southeast Asia

   The Fukuda Doctrine and Beyond

   Edited by Peng Er Lam

   Series: Politics in Asia

   The Fukuda Doctrine has been the official blueprint to Japan’s foreign policy towards Southeast Asia since 1977. This book examines the Fukuda Doctrine in the context of Japan-Southeast Asia relations, and discusses the possibility of a non-realist approach in the imagining and conduct of...

   Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Japan's Peace-Building Diplomacy in Asia

   Seeking a More Active Political Role

   By Peng Er Lam

   Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

   The conventional portrayal of Japan’s role in international affairs is of a passive political player which – despite its position as the world’s second largest economic power – punches below its weight on the world stage: its foreign policy driven by Washington, mercantilism and constrained by...

   Published October 20th 2011 by Routledge
3. Japan's Relations With China

   Facing a Rising Power

   Edited by Peng Er Lam

   Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

   The essays in this collection examine Sino-Japanese political relations given the phenomenon of ‘a rising China and a stagnating Japan’. Questioning whether their relationship is one of cooperation or conflict, the book reviews China and Japan’s bilateral ties to see whether they have deepened and...

   Published May 20th 2009 by Routledge
4. Green Politics in Japan

   By Lam Peng-Er

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   An important comparative study of Japanese politics that reveals that green issues have yet to displace the traditional urban politics of post-industrial Japan. This is unlike the rise of green parties and politics in Europe. Unlike Europe, it seems that political values in Japan are still...

   Published January 20th 1999 by Routledge
5. Managing Political Change in Singapore

   The Elected Presidency

   Edited by Lam Peng Er, Kevin Tan

   Series: Politics in Asia

   The Singapore parliament's creation of an elected presidency in 1991 was the biggest constitutional and political change in Singapore's modern era. This multi-disciplinary study gathers papers from leading scholars in law, history, political science and economics to examine how political change is...

   Published February 19th 1997 by Routledge