Quiet power: Japan's China policy in regard to the Pinnacle Islands

Pacific Review

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 159-188

  Hagström, Linus ^a  

^a Swedish Institute of International Affairs   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Diaoyu Islands; Japan's foreign policy; Japan's quiet power; Pinnacle Islands; Relational power analysis; Senkaku Islands; Sino Japanese relations

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN POLICY; POLITICAL RELATIONS; TERRITORIAL DISPUTE;

ASIA; CHINA; EAST CHINA SEA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; OKINAWA [RYUKYU ISLANDS]; PACIFIC OCEAN; RYUKYU ISLANDS; SENKAKU ISLANDS; WORLD;

EID: 23744506573     PISSN: 09512748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09512740500162923     Document Type: Review

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