Japan and South Africa in a Globalising World
Japan and South Africa in a Globalising World

Author: Chris Alden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-24

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1351752642

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This title was first published in 2003. From its position as one of Africa's major investors, and a top provider of development assistance, Tokyo's quiet diplomacy is having a growing impact on African affairs. This book illuminates the challenges facing the prospective partnership, and deconstructs the international political economy of this relationship. Furthermore, through a series of comparative studies, it explores the relevance of the content of the East Asian experience of South Africa and the continent as a whole. Features include: - an innovative study of the international political economy of an increasingly important relationship between Asia and Africa - an original analysis of the comparative dimensions of East Asia and Southern Africa's respective experiences in development - contextualizes the South African and Japanese experiences within the contemporary globalization debate The book is suitable for students and courses in international relations, development studies and comparative politics, as well as African and Asian studies.

Japan and Africa
Japan and Africa

Author: Howard P. Lehman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-06-22

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1136951407

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Since the early 1990s, Japan has played an increasingly important and influential role in Africa. A primary mechanism that has furthered its influence has been through its foreign aid policies. Japan’s primacy, however, has been challenged by changing global conditions related to aid to Africa, including the consolidation of the poverty reduction agenda and China’s growing presence in Africa. This book analyzes contemporary political and economic relations in foreign aid policy between Japan and Africa. Primary questions focus on Japan’s influence in the African continent, reasons for spending its limited resources to further African development, and the way Japan’s foreign aid is invested in Africa. The context of examining Japan’s foreign aid policies highlights the fluctuation between its commitments in contributing to international development and its more narrow-minded pursuit of its national interests. The contributors examine Japan’s foreign aid policy within the theme of a globalized economy in which Japan and Africa are inextricably connected. Japan and many African countries have come to realize that both sides can obtain benefits through closely coordinated aid policies. Moreover, Japan sees itself to represent a distinct voice in the international donor community while Africa needs foreign aid from all sources.

Japan-Africa Relations
Japan-Africa Relations

Author: T. Lumumba-Kasongo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-04-26

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0230108482

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Japan-Africa Relations seeks to study the complex nature of the dynamics of power relations between Japan and Africa since the Bandung Conference in 1955, with an emphasis on the period starting from the 1970s up to the present.

Sanctions and Honorary Whites
Sanctions and Honorary Whites

Author: Masako Osada

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2002-02-28

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 031301101X

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This study critically examines for the first time the unlikely friendship between apartheid South Africa and non-white Japan. In the mid-1980s, Japan became South Africa's largest trading partner, while South Africa purportedly treated Japanese citizens in the Republic as honorary whites under apartheid. Osada probes the very different foreign policy-making mechanisms of the two nations and analyzes their ambivalent bilateral relations against the background of postcolonial and Cold War politics. She concludes that these diplomatic policies were adopted not voluntarily or willingly, but out of necessity due to external circumstances and international pressure. Why did Japan exercise sanctions against South Africa in spite of their strong economic ties? How effective were these sanctions? What did the sensational term honorary whites actually mean? When and how did this special treatment begin? How did South Africa get away with apparently treating the Japanese as whites but not Chinese, other Coloureds, Indians, and so forth? By using Japan's sanctions against South Africa and South Africa's honorary white treatment of the Japanese as key concepts, the author describes the development of bilateral relations during this unique era. The book also covers the fascinating historical interaction between the two countries from the mid-17th century onward.

The Dynamics of Japan's Relations with Africa
The Dynamics of Japan's Relations with Africa

Author: Kweku Ampiah

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 113482534X

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This is the first book to examine in-depth Japan's relations with Africa. Japan's dependence on raw materials from South Africa made it impossible for Tokyo in the 1970s and 1980s to support other African states in their fight against the minority government and its policy of apartheid. Kweku Ampiah's detailed analysis of Japan's political, economic and diplomatic relations with sub-Saharan Africa from 1974 to the early 1990s makes it clear that Japan was lukewarm in the struggle against apartheid. Case studies of Tanzania and Nigeria dissect Japan's trade, aid and investment policies in sub-Saharan Africa more widely.

Africa in International Politics
Africa in International Politics

Author: Ian Taylor

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-02-24

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1134367112

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Locating Africa on the global stage, this book examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organizations towards Africa. The contributors work within a political economy framework in order to study how these powers have attempted to stimulate democracy, peace and prosperity in the context of neo-liberal hegemony and ask whom these attempts have benefited and failed.

Africa and the North
Africa and the North

Author: Ulf Engel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-11-10

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1134315872

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An important new discussion of Africa's place in the international system. This volume discusses Africa's place in the international system, examining the way in which the Westphalian system, in light of the impact of globalization and transnational networks, continues to play a major role in the structuring of Africa's international relations. The book provides a solid empirical analysis of key global players in Africa - France, the UK, the US, Japan, Germany, the EU and the UN - and of their policies towards the region. In the context of the 'war against terrorism', African political stability becomes a consideration of increasing importance. By analyzing the relevance of the states in the North, this book challenges conventional wisdom in recent international relations thinking. It applies the concept of an 'international policy community' to bridge the gap between the 'domestic' and the 'international', explaining why Africa retains a role in global politics out of any proportion to its economic weight.

Japan and South Africa
Japan and South Africa

Author: Natasha Skidmore

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9781919969206

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"Since the establishment of full diplomatic relations between Japan and South Africa on January 1992, the bilateral relationship has expanded in many areas. Current relations are characterized by cooperation and the sharing of common interests in international forums, such as the reform of the United Nations; disarmament; the peaceful resolution of conflict; the fight against terrorism; and the promotion of sustainable development as the best enabler of peace, prosperity, and stability. Japan's global financial status, its position as the leading provider of developmental aid and its advocacy of African development through the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) process have laid the foundation for the deepening of relations between the two countries." -- from Introduction (p. 1).

Migration and Agency in a Globalizing World
Migration and Agency in a Globalizing World

Author: Scarlett Cornelissen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-01-10

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1137602058

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This book – through a collection of case studies covering Southern and East Africa, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia – offers insights into the nature of social exchanges between Africa and Asia. In the age of the ‘Rise of the South’, it documents the entanglements and the lived experiences of African and Asian people on the move. Divided into three parts, the authors look at Asians in Africa, Africans in Asia, and the ‘connected histories’ that the two share, which illuminate emerging and historical modalities of Afro-Asian human encounters. Cornelissen and Yoichi show how migrants activate multiple forms of transnational social capital as part of their survival strategies and develop complex relationships with host communities.