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Foreign policy alignment with the war on terror: the case of Japan's foreign aid program / Shirali, Majid; Tuman, John P; Strand, Jonathan R

Tuman, John P	Journal Article
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Many scholars have suggested that Japan aligned its foreign policy with the US War on Terror. Part of Japan's alignment is said to have involved disbursement of foreign aid to support the US in Afghanistan and Iraq, and with other security interests associated with the War on Terror. To date, however, there has been little empirical study of this question. Employing a data set on Japanese aid to 133 countries between 1995 and 2008, we examine the War on Terror and Japanese ODA. We find that Japanese aid was aligned with some security interests in the War on Terror, but the effects were mixed.

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War on Terror ; Foreign Policy Alignment ; US–Japan RelationsJ ; apanese ODA

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What friends are made of: bilateral linkages and domestic drivers of foreign policy alignment with China / Struver, Georg

Struver, Georg	Article
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With China's emergence as a global power, it is commonly assumed that the Chinese leadership's influence in international politics has increased considerably. However, systematic studies of China's impact on the foreign policy behavior of other states are rare and generally limited to questions regarding economic capabilities and the use of coercive power. This paper seeks to contribute to the literature on China's global political rise by taking a broader perspective. Drawing on voting data from the UN General Assembly for the last two decades, it explores the plausibility of different explanations for foreign policy similarity: economic, diplomatic and military linkages; domestic institutional similarities; and parallel problem-solving processes. The logistic regression analyses find that high levels of foreign policy similarity correlate with shared regime characteristics and comparable patterns of political globalization. The results further indicate that foreign aid seems to help buy support in global politics.

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China ; Domestic Drivers ; Bilateral Linkages ; Foreign Policy Alignment

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