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Obama's foreign policies and rhetoric are a major departure from that which has prevailed in the United States for generations. Republicans have a different idea. (Survival / SWP)

1 Introduction -- 2 To Restore and Reconstruct: Yoshida Shigeru, Ashida Hitoshi, Katayama Tetsu -- 3 The Prewar Leftover with a Postwar Mission: Hatoyama Ichirō -- 4 The Failure of Brilliance: Kishi Nobusuke -- 5 The International Cold Warrior: Ikeda Hayato -- 6 The Cautious and Discreet Prime Minister: Satō Eisaku -- 7 The Computerized Bulldozer on the International Stage: Tanaka Kakuei -- 8 A Liberal Turning Realist: Miki Takeo -- 9 A Visionary Arch-Conservative: Fukuda Takeo -- 10 Turning the Tide: Ōhira Masayoshi -- 11 The Harmony Man on the Slippery Slope: Suzuki Zenkō -- 12 The Symbolic Statesman: Nakasone Yasuhiro -- 13 A Local Politician on the Global Stage: Takeshita Noboru -- 14 Hope and Uncertainty: Kaifu Toshiki -- 15 Full Circle: Miyazawa Kiichi -- 16 The Non-LDP Trio: Hosokawa Morihiro, Hata Tsutomu, Murayama Tomiichi -- 17 LDP Bosses at the Pinnacle of Power: Hashimoto Ryūtarō, Obuchi Keizō, Mori Yoshirō -- 18 A Doer Enters the Stage: Koizumi Junichirō -- 19 Three Offsprings on the Political Scene: Abe Shinzō, Fukuda Yasuo, Asō Tarō -- 20 The Up and Down of the LDP's Political Opposition: Hatoyama Yukio, Kan Naoto,Noda Yoshihiko -- 21 The Comeback Kid: Abe Shinzō -- 22 Conclusion: Japan's Evolving Foreign Policy Doctrine.

During half a century after the war Japan's economy was built up from scratch to the world's number two, while its foreign policy has been described by many as passive and even verging on being non-existent. As a contrast, this study evinces how the foundations of Japan's foreign policy were laid in the early postwar period, and how postwar policies have been characterized by pervasive continuity, guided by distinct national goals and expressed in clear-cut national role conceptions

The Bush administration has coined a foreign-policy doctrine. President George W. Bush, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and Secretary of State Colin Powell herald "the new realism." Think you know what they are up to? OK, then fill in the blank: The "new realism" is _______. If you find the blank hard to fill, don't worry; so would most of today's international-relations scholars. Indeed, one fundamental problem with the Bush administration's new doctrine is that "realism" no longer has any real intellectual coherence.

President George W. Bush, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, & Secretary of State Colin Powell claim that their ideology is "the new realism," The authors note several problems with this. First, the ideology of realism itself is shown not to work. Realism is the idea that military power is the driving force in the world. Experience has shown that other factors -- such as economic globalization, political democratization, particular belief systems, & international law & institutions -- impact global politics. Therefore realism is a simplistic model. Bush's use of the realism title may be an attempt to give the administration an image of truth & honesty, in contrast to the previous administration. Another theory for the use of the title is that more military emphasis is actually needed in certain cases, such as the unwillingness of the US to mediate in the Middle East. The "new realism" title may continue, but what is needed more then a label is a sensible foreign policy. R. Larsen