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This paper attempts to describe and to analyze Japan's new foreign aid policy. Japan's foreign aid activities can be divided into four periods, roughly the fifties, the sixties and the seventies; in 1977, the Japanese government started new foreign aid policy by deciding to double Japan's foreign aid within three years. In the 1980s, three more doubling plans followed. As result, in fall of 1988 Japan became the biggest foreign aid donor in the world. The paper analyzes aims and motives of Japan's new foreign aid policy as well as country and regional distribution, instruments, and results. The findings show that Japan is going into the right direction accepting its international responsibilities as an economic superpower and playing more important role concerning the problem of burden-sharing among the OECD-countries. The paper closes by identifying problems of the new foreign aid policy of Japan and by stating that Japan could and should do more.

There is a broad agreement in the international academic community as well as among the major political leaders in the world that burning fossil fuels is a major cause for global warming. This article focuses, first, on the linkage between energy security and climate change; second, on the responsibilities of national governments on the one hand and the responsibilities of the international community on the other hand; and third, on the importance of the role of leaders in today's globalising world, especially with respect to energy security and climate change. The hypothesis of this article is that a globalising world requires global governance. To create global governance mechanisms, we need leadership. Leadership, however, requires not only leaders but also followers, as well as an understanding of the challenges to and the opportunities for the world we are living in.

"Die Angst vor einer neuen Ölkrise als Folge eines Krieges gegen Irak ist unbegründet. Ein teilweiser Ausfall der Ölexporte aus Irak oder auch aus Saudi-Arabien stellt für den Weltölmarkt kein Problem dar." (Autorenreferat)