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In Japan's Reluctant Realism , Michael J. Green examines the adjustments of Japanese foreign policy in the decade since the end of the Cold War. Green presents case studies of China, the Korean peninsula, Russia and Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the international financial institutions, and multilateral forums (the United Nations, APEC, and the ARF). In each of these studies, Green considers Japanese objectives; the effectiveness of Japanese diplomacy in achieving those objectives; the domestic and exogenous pressures on policy-making; the degree of convergence or divergence with the United States in both strategy and implementation; and lessons for more effective US - Japan diplomatic cooperation in the future. As Green notes, its bilateral relationship with the United States is at the heart of Japan's foreign policy initiatives, and Japan therefore conducts foreign policy with one eye carefully on Washington. However, Green argues, it is time to recognize Japan as an independent actor in Northeast Asia, and to assess Japanese foreign policy in its own terms.

This article explores some aspects of the representation poverty in development studies from an anthropological perspective. Starting from the history of the category of poverty as the central target for development policy, the article shows how the ways in which poverty is assessed not only have implications for the kinds of strategies adopted to address it but for theories about its causes. Such accounts underplay the significance of social relations in contributing to poverty outcomes and the political structures which keep people poor. Anthropological approaches to the study of deprivation and inequality can provide a useful corrective to the homogenising effects of development perspectives on poverty.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- SECTION I. Religious freedom and human flourishing in Nigeria -- 1. Squaring the circle: Freedom of religion and secularism in the Nigerian constitution -- Introduction -- History of freedom of religion in Nigerian jurisprudence -- The 1959 Constitutional Conference: negotiating Nigerian religious freedom -- Management of sharia in Nigerian constitutionalism -- The 1959 settlement and the privatisation of sharia -- Privatisation of sharia and limitation of Sharia Courts -- Secularity as a contested constitutional norm -- Section 10 of the Nigerian Constitution and non‑establishment of religion -- Comparative secularist perspectives and assessment of Nigerian secularism -- Tension between secularity and religious freedom in Nigeria -- Disestablishment in the 1979 Constitution -- Rawlsian ordering and the "fact of pluralism" -- Nigerian constitutional confusion on religion -- Conclusion -- 2. Human flourishing, church leadership and legal disputes in Nigerian churches -- Introduction -- Conceptualisation of terms -- Churches and the promotion of human flourishing -- Church disputes -- Celestial Church of Christ (CCC) -- Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) -- Effects of church disputes on human flourishing -- Strife amongst members -- Loss of reputation -- Loss of focus and progress -- Waste of resources -- Schism and burden of members -- Towards effective internal governance mechanisms -- Conclusion -- 3. Freedom of, from or for religion: Perspectives from proscription of religious activities in halls of residence at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile‑Ife, Nigeria -- Introduction -- Contentions over boundaries of religious freedom in higher education space -- Regulatory framework for sound disturbance in Nigeria -- National and state level regulations -- Higher education institution regulations.