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"From a nuclear North Korea and territorial disputes in the East China Sea, to global climate change and Asia-Pacific free trade agreements, Japan is at the center of some of the most challenging issues that the world faces today. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, comprising contributions from the fields of politics, sociology, history, and gender studies, this handbook creates a comprehensive and innovative overview of the field, investigating the widening variety of interests, sometimes competing, that constitute Japanese foreign policy. Organized topically, it is divided into sections, including: Japans evolving foreign policy landscape Global environmental and sustainable development International and national security International political economy International norms and civil society.Providing an evaluation of the key actors, institutions, and networks influencing Japanese foreign policy, the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Foreign Policy is an essential resource for students and scholars of Japanese and Asian Politics, International Relations, and Foreign Policy."--Provided by publisher.

The fast changing international situation requires Russia's flexible and timely reaction to the new challenges and threats to its security that arise in the process of the constant evolution of the entire system of modern international relations. At the same time, the Russian Federation, too, is in the process of transformation; it is acquiring new possibilities for an effective response to these challenges and threats; the structure of its national security interests is changing, which should find its reflection in Russia's new foreign policy concept. Adapted from the source document.

1 Introduction: Foreign Policy Change, Tim Haesebrouck and Jeroen K. Joly -- 2 Belgian Foreign Policy. In Foro Interno, Inferno?, Jeroen K. Joly and Tim Haesebrouck -- 3 Czech Foreign Policy After the Velvet Revolution, Zdeněk Kříž, Martin Chovančík and Odřich Krpec -- 4 Danish Foreign Policy: Continuity and Change in the Post-Cold War Period, Henrik Larsen -- 5 Finnish Foreign Policy: Pragmatic Adjustment to a Changing World Order, Tapio Raunio -- 6 French Foreign Policy: Make France Great Again, Friederike Richter and Martial Foucault.-7 German Foreign Policy, Patrick A. Mello -- 8 Italian Foreign Policy: Still the Days Seem the Same?, Fabrizio Coticchia and Valerio Vignoli -- 9 Dutch Foreign Policy: Staying the Course Amid a Changing World, Niels van Willigen -- 10 Polish Foreign Policy: From 'Go To' Player to Territorial Defender, Laura Chappell -- 11 Spanish Foreign Policy: Navigating Global Shifts and Domestic Crises, Eduard Soler i Lecha and Esther Barbé -- 12 British Foreign Policy Since the End of the Cold War, Andrew M. Dorman.-13 Conclusion: Grasping Foreign Policy Change, Klaus Brummer and Kai Oppermann.

Public opinion is central to representation, democratic accountability, & decision making. Yet, the public was long believed to be relatively uninterested in foreign affairs, absent an immediate threat to safety & welfare. It had become conventional to say that "voting ends at water's edge." We start the examination of the scholarly understanding of the role of foreign affairs in public opinion & voting at that low point of view. Much subsequent development saw an increasing degree of holding & using of attitudes & beliefs about foreign affairs among the public. Moving in parallel with developments in political psychology, theoretical & methodological advances led to an increasingly widely shared view that the public holds reasonably sensible & nuanced views, that these help shape their political behaviors, & that these, in turn, help shape & constrain foreign policy making. References. Adapted from the source document.

Although most policy studies argue there has been no influence of Islam on Indonesia's foreign policy, the foreign relations of the Republic of Indonesia during the revolution for independence provide a counter-example. Because of the greater role for society in conducting, rather than just influencing, foreign relations, Islam was used as a key element in Indonesia's diplomatic efforts in the Arab world between 1945 and 1949. This led to several key, early successes for Indonesia on the world stage, but changing circumstances meant that relations with the Arab world and thus the place of Islam in foreign policy were no longer prominent from 1948.

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shattered numerous assumptions about the drivers of Russian foreign policy, posing a fundamental challenge to the Russia studies community. Against this backdrop, the article centers on the imperative to reflect how we think and examine Russian foreign policy amid considerable transformations in the country's international as well as domestic realities. This contribution does so by reviewing and critically reassessing past accomplishments and shortcomings within the field of Russian foreign policy research, evaluating their pertinence in a post-2022 context. Focusing on the scholarly work done with regard to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the study demonstrates that the literature suffers from the inertial tendency of offering old answers to new questions, suggesting potential avenues for further scholarly work on this topic.