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The Need for a Bottom-Up Perspective about Asian Societies -- The Need for an Evidence-Based Approach to Asian Societies -- Two Methodological Issues -- Attending Holistically and Analytically -- Are Asian Societies One Type -- Choosing Indicators and Typologizing of Societies -- Factor Analysis Results -- Twenty-Nine Types of Asian Societies -- Strength and Weakness of the Proposed Typology -- Corroborative Analysis and Empirical Validation -- Conclusion.

Comprising 60.3 percent of the world's 7.2 billion population, Asia is an enigma to many in the West. Hugely dynamic in its demographic, economic, technological and financial development, its changes are as rapid as they are diverse. The SAGE Handbook of Asian Foreign Policy provides the reader with a clear, balanced and comprehensive overview on Asia's foreign policy and accompanying theoretical trends. Placing the diverse and dynamic substance of Asia's international relations first, and bringing together an authoritative assembly of contributors from across the world, this is a reliable introduction to non-Western intellectual traditions in Asia

Comprising 60.3 percent of the world's 7.2 billion population, Asia is an enigma to many in the West. Hugely dynamic in its demographic, economic, technological and financial development, its changes are as rapid as they are diverse. The SAGE Handbook of Asian Foreign Policy provides the reader with a clear, balanced and comprehensive overview on Asia's foreign policy and accompanying theoretical trends. Placing the diverse and dynamic substance of Asia's international relations first, and bringing together an authoritative assembly of contributors from across the world, this is a reliable introduction to non-Western intellectual traditions in Asi

"Preface" -- "Bibliography" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Contents" -- "Chapter 1: Introduction" -- "References" -- "Part I: Interpersonal Trust" -- "Chapter 2: Social Capital in Ten Asian Societies" -- "2.1 Introduction" -- "2.2 Social Capital Questions" -- "2.2.1 High Trust and Low (Questions 1, 2, 3)" -- "2.2.2 Broad Trust and Narrow" -- "2.2.3 Collective Trust" -- "2.2.4 Gender-Related Trust" -- "2.2.5 Power and Non-confidence" -- "2.3 Ten Country Pooled Data" -- "2.3.1 Parameterization" -- "2.4 Principal Component Analysis" -- "2.4.1 Country Ranking" -- "2.5 Hierarchical Cluster Analysis" -- "2.5.1 Discriminant Analysis" -- "2.6 Conclusion" -- "References" -- "Chapter 3: Social Capital in East Asia: Comparative Political Culture in Confucian Societies" -- "3.1 Introduction" -- "3.2 Questions from AsiaBarometer Survey" -- "3.3 Data" -- "3.3.1 Dependent Variables" -- "3.3.2 Independent Variables" -- "3.3.3 Control Variables" -- "3.4 Estimation Results" -- "3.5 Interpretation of Estimation Results" -- "3.6 Conclusion" -- " Appendix 1. Descriptive Statistics" -- "References" -- "Chapter 4: Quantifying Social Capital in Central and South Asia: Are There Democratic, Developmental, and Regionalizing Potentials?" -- "4.1 Introduction" -- "4.2 Social Capital Questions: Overview" -- "4.3 Social Capital Questions: Relevance to Individual Parameters" -- "4.4 Three Dimensions of Social Capital" -- "4.5 Country Rankings" -- "4.6 Six Groups of Countries" -- "4.7 Conclusion" -- "References" -- "Chapter 5: Psychometric Approach to Social Capital: Using AsiaBarometer Survey Data in 29 Asian Societies" -- "5.1 Conceptual Background" -- "5.2 The Measurement Issue" -- "5.3 Scope of Analysis" -- "5.4 Four Dimensions of Social Capital" -- "5.5 Societal Traits and Groups of Societies" -- "5.6 Future Enhancements" -- "References

Acknowledgement -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- References -- 2 Exit, Voice, and Loyalty -- 3 Model Specification -- 4 Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: State-Centered Versus Society-Centered Perspective -- 4.1 Most Common in Political Theory Is the State-Centric Approach to Exit, Voice, and Loyalty -- 4.2 The Society-Centered Perspective Has not Been Highlighted at Least in Political Theory -- References -- 5 Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: A Profile -- 5.1 A Profile of the 32 Societies on Exit, Voice, and Loyalty -- 5.2 Subregional Profiles -- 5.2.1 East Asia: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan -- 5.2.2 Southeast Asia: Cambodia, the Philippines, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Brunei, and Indonesia -- 5.2.3 South Asia: Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and the Maldives -- 5.2.4 Central Asia: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Mongolia -- 5.2.5 Russia, Australia, and the United States -- 5.3 Exit, Broader Voice, Bureaucratic Voice, Broader Loyalty, and Don't Know -- 5.3.1 Exit (Act Without a Permit) -- 5.3.2 Broader Voice (Use Connections and Bribe an Official Combined) -- 5.3.3 Bureaucratic Voice (Write a Letter) -- 5.3.4 Broader Loyalty (Wait Patiently and Hope and Nothing Can Be Done) -- 5.3.5 Don't Know -- 6 Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in Twenty-Nine Asian Societies -- 6.1 Country Profiles of Twenty-Nine Asian Societies: Logit Regression Analysis -- 6.2 Afghanistan -- 6.3 Australia -- 6.4 Bangladesh -- 6.5 Bhutan -- 6.6 Brunei -- 6.7 Cambodia -- 6.8 China -- 6.9 Hong Kong -- 6.10 India -- 6.11 Indonesia -- 6.12 Japan -- 6.13 Kazakhstan -- 6.14 Kyrgyzstan -- 6.15 Laos -- 6.16 Malaysia -- 6.17 Mongolia -- 6.18 Nepal -- 6.19 Pakistan -- 6.20 The Philippines -- 6.21 Russia -- 6.22 Singapore -- 6.23 South Korea -- 6.24 Sri Lanka -- 6.25 Taiwan -- 6.26 Tajikistan

The evolution of Japan''s foreign policy at the time of great transformation-cum-transition after World War II is analysed and considered from two angles: a Japan adrift, with an opportunistic, short-term pragmatism, and a Japan determinedly and tenaciously steadfast to its national interests. Inoguchi provides fascinating and balanced accounts of Japan''s foreign policy at a time when its premises are seemingly undermined and its domestic and international underpinnings eroding. First published in 1993, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures, Graph and Tables -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction From Karaoke to Kabuki Democracy: Japanese Politics Today -- 1 Prime Ministers -- 2 The System of Bureaucrats in Japan -- 3 Legislators -- 4 Winning Elections in Japan's New Electoral Environment -- 5 Party Politics in Japan -- 6 The Farm Lobby -- 7 Civil Society and Global Citizenship in Japan -- 8 Welfare Policy -- 9 Japan's Subnational Government: Toward Greater Decentralization and Participatory Democracy

This book gives insights into the basic values and life styles of peoples of ten societies in East, Southeast, South and Central Asia. Based on data from AsiaBarometer public surveys of 2003, it examines human values and life styles of peoples in Urban Asia. It presents country profile and comparative analysis by well-informed scholars, reports of the entire questionnaires (both standard common English language questionnaire and local language questionnaires), the whole comparable tabulated figures by society, the sampling methods and sizes and fieldwork in ten societies