wakamatsu, michinori (2020) Japan’s instrumentalisation of Taiwan for its security and power-political relations vis-à-vis the PRC in international society. PhD thesis, University of Sheffield.
Abstract
This thesis investigates Japan’s utilisation of Taiwan as a foreign policy instrument for its security vis-à-vis the PRC. It considers the non-recognition and sanctioning of Taiwan within international society and examines how Japan incrementally treats Taiwan as if it is a part of international security efforts despite its non-recognition of the latter in its efforts to navigate its One-China policy. Therefore, Japan–Taiwan relations can be regarded as largely hierarchical. Chapter 1 discusses Japan One China policy and Taiwan, and how these frameworks condition Japan’s engagement with Taiwan in the context of the former’s One China policy. This relationship requires the innovative theoretical approach that turns to the English School of International Relations, wherein Japan is the central protagonist in the grand narrative, which gives Japan an opportunity to be the regional accommodator of the marginal entity like Taiwan in international society. Chapter 2 then focuses on the English School of International Relations and discusses how Japan has been narrated as a good student of Eurocentric international society, while also examining how the non-sovereign political communities have been engaged by the great Eurocentric great powers. These attempts elucidate how Japan’s accommodation of Taiwan into international society has not received the scholastic attention it deserves. Chapter 3 then engages with the literature on Japan–Taiwan relations, focusing on Japan’s foreign policy instruments to elucidate how the nation determines the boundaries of an acceptable Japan–Taiwan security cooperation while pacifying the PRC. Here, we conceptualise how Japan socialises Taiwan through international security norms as if it is a member of the multilateral security forums without affording it formal membership. Chapter 4 then examines how Taiwan fits into the Japanese concept of CSD and assesses what Japan is willing to do in terms of the Japan–Taiwan security cooperation while providing Taiwan with deterrence against the PRC. Chapter 5 focuses on the ICAO to assess what Japan can do to ensure Taiwan behaves as if it is a member of the ICAO in view of Japan’s security. Chapter 6 then uses the Japan–Taiwan fisheries agreement to examine how Japan made Taiwan a quasi-equal stakeholder on a par with both Japan and the PRC while dividing the potential cross-strait united front against Japan. It also examines the normative dynamics behind the enhancement of conflict alleviation despite the tensions between the nations with reference to the ESIR perspectives. Taking these empirical investigations into account, the conclusion considers the importance of further research on Japan’s accommodation of ‘internationally ostracised entities’ within international society in terms of the ESIR paradigm.
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Supervisors: | Dobson, Hugo and Marjorie, Dryburgh |
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Keywords: | Japanese Studies, Security Studies, English School of International Relations, Foreign Policy Instruments, Taiwan, Informal Politics, International Society, Collective Self-Defense, International Civil Aviation, Fisheries Agreement |
Awarding institution: | University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Politics (Sheffield) |
Academic unit: | School of East Asian Studies |
Identification Number/EthosID: | uk.bl.ethos.823923 |
Depositing User: | Mr michinori wakamatsu |
Date Deposited: | 18 Feb 2021 21:26 |
Last Modified: | 25 Mar 2021 16:52 |
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