Author: Black Lindsay
Publisher: Routledge Ltd
ISSN: 1470-1332
Source: The Pacific Review, Vol.26, Iss.4, 2013-09, pp. : 337-359
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Abstract
Numerous academic works have critiqued Japan's Official Development Assistance (ODA) programme for being mercantilist and failing to promote democratization and human rights (Orr 1990; Rix 1993; Arase 1995, 2005). Such accounts assess Japan's ODA policy from Western theoretical perspectives that advocate Western approaches, such as military and economic interventions to contain repressive states. While receptive to these criticisms, Japanese policy-makers have perceived their country's international role in ‘bridging’ (
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