Shogo Suzuki
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3675419 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Shogo Suzuki |
| NOMBRES | Shogo |
| APELLIDO | Suzuki |
| FIRMA | SUZUKI S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Manchester |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 170 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Great Power Strategies
Economic statecraft, interdependence, and Sino-Japanese ‘rivalry’
China’s increasingly active economic diplomacy in recent years has often been deeply linked to its geostrategic interests. Japan is said to be watching this development with alarm. Analysts have often claimed that this has resulted in Sino-Japanese rivalry, where the Japanese see any gains made by China in zero-sum terms, and make concerted efforts to counter China’s growing influence. This article, however, is critical of such views. While eleme…
That Distant Country Next Door
Reviewed by: That Distant Country Next Door: Popular Japanese Perceptions of Mao's China by Erik Esselstrom Shogo Suzuki (bio) That Distant Country Next Door: Popular Japanese Perceptions of Mao's China. By Erik Esselstrom. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2019. x, 230 pages. $68.00. Erik Esselstrom's new book reveals the complexities of Japanese perceptions toward the PRC in Japanese society. The author does this by excavating the "everyda…
China, Responsibility to Protect, and the Case of Syria
Will the rise of China, an authoritarian, party-state with a poor record of protecting its citizens’ human rights, undermine humanitarian intervention? This question has been particularly pertinent since China’s “assertive turn” in foreign policy. Drawing on the case of Chinese reactions to the humanitarian crisis in Syria, this article argues that China’s attitude toward humanitarian intervention remains ambiguous and contradictory. While China …
Peacekeeping
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Japanese revisionists and the ‘Korea threat’
This article contributes to the debate on Japanese security. Drawing on insights from ontological security, it challenges conventional understandings that China and North Korea are Japan’s main security threats. It argues that South Korea poses a powerful threat to the Japanese right-wing revisionists’ perception of Japan. The revisionists have attempted to secure Japan’s identity from the ‘Korea threat’ by labelling South Korea a ‘non-democracy’…
Explaining Japan's response to geopolitical vulnerability
Elite and public doubts in Japan about the country's economic and security relationships with both the United States and China, changes in the regional threat environment and the enhanced influence of revisionist conservatives in leadership positions over the past five years make conditions ripe for more muscular internal and external balancing by Japan. Despite this, recent changes to Japan's overall grand strategy and military posture remain in…
Contesting International Society in East Asia
Bringing together some of the most innovative scholars in both the English School of international relations and East Asian studies, this volume investigates whether or not significant and distinct international social structures exist at the regional level represented by 'East Asia', and what this can tell us about international society both regionally and globally. The book's main finding is that the regional dispute over how its states and peo…
Why Do We Need ‘Myth-Busting’ in the Study of Sino–African Relations
The literature on Sino–African relations has debated whether or not China's growing presence is a threat to Western or African interests, and has come to the conclusion that China's behavior is not uniquely immoral. Many countries, including Western liberal democracies, similarly give aid to local autocrats to secure natural resources. Why, then, has so much effort been made to come to this perhaps unsurprising conclusion? We argue that the liter…
The rise of the Chinese ‘Other’ in Japan's construction of identity
Since 1945, the United States (US) has served as a focal point of both Left-wing and Right-wing Japanese nationalism. Both sides argued that the US was an arrogant hegemon that unjustly robbed Japan of its autonomy, and prevented Japan from achieving its own ideal national identity. Both sides frequently demanded that Japan should be more ‘resolute’ and resist unfair demands emanating from the US. In recent years, however, both camps are increasi…
Journey to the West
This article joins recent debates on China’s rise that claim the People’s Republic of China has become increasingly ‘assertive’. By examining discourses calling for China to emulate Western great powers, it demonstrates that there remains a powerful discourse within Chinese society which regards Western standards as the sole ‘benchmark’ for success and recognition in the international community. In doing so, the article introduces the concept of …
The Scandinavian International Society by Laust Schouenborg
International Orders in the Early Modern World
This chapter asks to what extent the English School concept of the ‘expansion of an European society of states’ helps us to understand early encounters between Europeans and non-Europeans on the Indian sub-continent. The chapter tests this framework through an in-depth analysis of official correspondence amongst members of the British East India Company at the founding moment of British sovereign authority on the Indian coast in the middle of the…
The exceptional state in Africa
China's relations with African states have undergone significant changes in recent years. China has projected its relationship with Africa as one of equality and ‘mutual help’. Such perceptions of foreign policy stem from the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and the shared experience of imperialist domination and economic underdevelopment. Moreover, various public statements by China's elites suggest that China is expected to play a much m…
Europe and Japan
This article traces the historical evolution of the images of Europe in Japan. While the length of Japan’s interactions with Europe do not compare to those between China, Korea, and Japan, the Europeans have nevertheless played a significant role in the process of constructing a Japanese identity. While Europe initially played a part in consolidating ethnocentric notions of Japanese superiority, since the expansion of European International Socie…
Overcoming Past Wrongs Committed by States
This article investigates whether or not reconciliation for historical wrongs can be realized in the absence of a state apology. States have traditionally been notoriously reluctant to apologize for their past crimes, and this has often meant that victims are unable to attain closure while they are still alive. What, then, are the alternatives? This article examines the case of the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan’s Military Sex…
Why Does China Participate in Intrusive Peacekeeping? Understanding Paternalistic Chinese Discourses on Development and Intervention
Why does China continue to participate in highly intrusive peacekeeping operations which, it can be argued, suspend the sovereignty of the host state and attempt to transform it into a liberal democratic, market capitalist state? This article highlights the significant role of Chinese paternalism in providing the ideological justification for intervening in states' domestic affairs. Focusing on the quasi-official annual publication, the China Mod…
The Competition to Attain Justice for Past Wrongs
This article joins the debate on transnational campaigns for Japanese historical wrongs in the Asia-Pacific by highlighting the collective "forgetting" on the part of the victims' society. Focusing on the Taiwanese "comfort women" issue, I argue that the "comfort women" campaign has been overshadowed by identity politics in Taiwan, and has subsequently lost ground to civil society debates about the KMT's repressive past. In the context of democra…
Civilization and Empire
This book critically examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarous’ polities contributed to conflict between China and Japan. Challenging existing works that have presented the expansion of (European) International Society as a progressive, linear process, this book contends that imperialism – along with an ideology premised on ‘civilising’ ‘barbarous’ peoples – played…
Chinese Soft Power, Insecurity Studies, Myopia and Fantasy
This article is critical of a series of works on Chinese soft power which have garnered much attention in recent years. These works typically portray Chinese soft power, characterised by its disregard for Western models of development that propagate 'democratic governance', as a latent threat to global order. The article argues that such claims are premature, and to date there is little evidence of a systematic attempt by the Chinese to propagate…
Can apology serve as a security policy? Responsible scholarship and breaking the chains of negative history in Sino-Japanese relations
This article takes a critical look at conventional studies of Sino-Japanese relations and East Asian security. While realizing that memories of Japanese aggression are a key causal factor of mutual suspicions and security dilemmas between China and Japan, mainstream studies do not offer us concrete solutions to this problem because their solutions are either military-centric, or have an excessive focus on Chinese nationalism and China's “patrioti…
Seeking `Legitimate' Great Power Status in Post-Cold War International Society
This article joins the debates on hierarchies in international society. Drawing on the insights of the English School approach, it shows that the existence of socially legitimated great powers results in the emergence of `frustrated great powers', which are dissatisfied with their status in international society. By examining the participation of China and Japan in United Nations peacekeeping operations, it argues that `frustrated great powers' c…
The importance of ‘Othering’ in China's national identity
Recent studies have increasingly argued that the Chinese leadership uses Japan's imperialistic past as a tool for domestic and political bargaining. However, this argument fails to appreciate the embedded nature of negative memories within China. This article forwards an alternative argument by situating Japanese militaristic history within Chinese national identity. By examining a wide range of Chinese primary sources often underutilized by Inte…
Japan’s Socialization into Janus-Faced European International Society
This article joins the debate on the entry of non-European states into International Society by examining the socialization of Japan into the normative framework of European International Society during the Meiji period. Despite recent arguments that the English School has pioneered an interpretivist approach in the study of international politics, their conceptualization of the expansion of International Society has paid scant regard to non-Euro…
China’s Perceptions of International Society in the Nineteenth Century
This article investigates the socialization of China into international society in the late nineteenth century by adopting the theoretical framework of the International Society (English School) approach. Scholarship on China’s recent behavior within international society has suggested that China is beginning to be "socialized" into the society. However, this is misleading in that it assumes that China was not socialized prior to embarking on its…
The rise of the Chinese ‘Other’ in Japan's construction of identity
Since 1945, the United States (US) has served as a focal point of both Left-wing and Right-wing Japanese nationalism. Both sides argued that the US was an arrogant hegemon that unjustly robbed Japan of its autonomy, and prevented Japan from achieving its own ideal national identity. Both sides frequently demanded that Japan should be more ‘resolute’ and resist unfair demands emanating from the US. In recent years, however, both camps are increasi…
The importance of ‘Othering’ in China's national identity
Recent studies have increasingly argued that the Chinese leadership uses Japan's imperialistic past as a tool for domestic and political bargaining. However, this argument fails to appreciate the embedded nature of negative memories within China. This article forwards an alternative argument by situating Japanese militaristic history within Chinese national identity. By examining a wide range of Chinese primary sources often underutilized by Inte…
Japan’s Socialization into Janus-Faced European International Society
This article joins the debate on the entry of non-European states into International Society by examining the socialization of Japan into the normative framework of European International Society during the Meiji period. Despite recent arguments that the English School has pioneered an interpretivist approach in the study of international politics, their conceptualization of the expansion of International Society has paid scant regard to non-Euro…
International Orders in the Early Modern World
This chapter asks to what extent the English School concept of the ‘expansion of an European society of states’ helps us to understand early encounters between Europeans and non-Europeans on the Indian sub-continent. The chapter tests this framework through an in-depth analysis of official correspondence amongst members of the British East India Company at the founding moment of British sovereign authority on the Indian coast in the middle of the…
Chinese Soft Power, Insecurity Studies, Myopia and Fantasy
This article is critical of a series of works on Chinese soft power which have garnered much attention in recent years. These works typically portray Chinese soft power, characterised by its disregard for Western models of development that propagate 'democratic governance', as a latent threat to global order. The article argues that such claims are premature, and to date there is little evidence of a systematic attempt by the Chinese to propagate…
Japanese revisionists and the ‘Korea threat’
This article contributes to the debate on Japanese security. Drawing on insights from ontological security, it challenges conventional understandings that China and North Korea are Japan’s main security threats. It argues that South Korea poses a powerful threat to the Japanese right-wing revisionists’ perception of Japan. The revisionists have attempted to secure Japan’s identity from the ‘Korea threat’ by labelling South Korea a ‘non-democracy’…
Seeking `Legitimate' Great Power Status in Post-Cold War International Society
This article joins the debates on hierarchies in international society. Drawing on the insights of the English School approach, it shows that the existence of socially legitimated great powers results in the emergence of `frustrated great powers', which are dissatisfied with their status in international society. By examining the participation of China and Japan in United Nations peacekeeping operations, it argues that `frustrated great powers' c…
Economic statecraft, interdependence, and Sino-Japanese ‘rivalry’
China’s increasingly active economic diplomacy in recent years has often been deeply linked to its geostrategic interests. Japan is said to be watching this development with alarm. Analysts have often claimed that this has resulted in Sino-Japanese rivalry, where the Japanese see any gains made by China in zero-sum terms, and make concerted efforts to counter China’s growing influence. This article, however, is critical of such views. While eleme…
Journey to the West
This article joins recent debates on China’s rise that claim the People’s Republic of China has become increasingly ‘assertive’. By examining discourses calling for China to emulate Western great powers, it demonstrates that there remains a powerful discourse within Chinese society which regards Western standards as the sole ‘benchmark’ for success and recognition in the international community. In doing so, the article introduces the concept of …
Why Does China Participate in Intrusive Peacekeeping? Understanding Paternalistic Chinese Discourses on Development and Intervention
Why does China continue to participate in highly intrusive peacekeeping operations which, it can be argued, suspend the sovereignty of the host state and attempt to transform it into a liberal democratic, market capitalist state? This article highlights the significant role of Chinese paternalism in providing the ideological justification for intervening in states' domestic affairs. Focusing on the quasi-official annual publication, the China Mod…
Explaining Japan's response to geopolitical vulnerability
Elite and public doubts in Japan about the country's economic and security relationships with both the United States and China, changes in the regional threat environment and the enhanced influence of revisionist conservatives in leadership positions over the past five years make conditions ripe for more muscular internal and external balancing by Japan. Despite this, recent changes to Japan's overall grand strategy and military posture remain in…
Why Do We Need ‘Myth-Busting’ in the Study of Sino–African Relations
The literature on Sino–African relations has debated whether or not China's growing presence is a threat to Western or African interests, and has come to the conclusion that China's behavior is not uniquely immoral. Many countries, including Western liberal democracies, similarly give aid to local autocrats to secure natural resources. Why, then, has so much effort been made to come to this perhaps unsurprising conclusion? We argue that the liter…
China, Responsibility to Protect, and the Case of Syria
Will the rise of China, an authoritarian, party-state with a poor record of protecting its citizens’ human rights, undermine humanitarian intervention? This question has been particularly pertinent since China’s “assertive turn” in foreign policy. Drawing on the case of Chinese reactions to the humanitarian crisis in Syria, this article argues that China’s attitude toward humanitarian intervention remains ambiguous and contradictory. While China …
Overcoming Past Wrongs Committed by States
This article investigates whether or not reconciliation for historical wrongs can be realized in the absence of a state apology. States have traditionally been notoriously reluctant to apologize for their past crimes, and this has often meant that victims are unable to attain closure while they are still alive. What, then, are the alternatives? This article examines the case of the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan’s Military Sex…
The Competition to Attain Justice for Past Wrongs
This article joins the debate on transnational campaigns for Japanese historical wrongs in the Asia-Pacific by highlighting the collective "forgetting" on the part of the victims' society. Focusing on the Taiwanese "comfort women" issue, I argue that the "comfort women" campaign has been overshadowed by identity politics in Taiwan, and has subsequently lost ground to civil society debates about the KMT's repressive past. In the context of democra…
China’s Perceptions of International Society in the Nineteenth Century
This article investigates the socialization of China into international society in the late nineteenth century by adopting the theoretical framework of the International Society (English School) approach. Scholarship on China’s recent behavior within international society has suggested that China is beginning to be "socialized" into the society. However, this is misleading in that it assumes that China was not socialized prior to embarking on its…
Japan’s Socialization into Janus-Faced European International Society
This article joins the debate on the entry of non-European states into International Society by examining the socialization of Japan into the normative framework of European International Society during the Meiji period. Despite recent arguments that the English School has pioneered an interpretivist approach in the study of international politics, their conceptualization of the expansion of International Society has paid scant regard to non-Euro…
The importance of ‘Othering’ in China's national identity
Recent studies have increasingly argued that the Chinese leadership uses Japan's imperialistic past as a tool for domestic and political bargaining. However, this argument fails to appreciate the embedded nature of negative memories within China. This article forwards an alternative argument by situating Japanese militaristic history within Chinese national identity. By examining a wide range of Chinese primary sources often underutilized by Inte…
Can apology serve as a security policy? Responsible scholarship and breaking the chains of negative history in Sino-Japanese relations
This article takes a critical look at conventional studies of Sino-Japanese relations and East Asian security. While realizing that memories of Japanese aggression are a key causal factor of mutual suspicions and security dilemmas between China and Japan, mainstream studies do not offer us concrete solutions to this problem because their solutions are either military-centric, or have an excessive focus on Chinese nationalism and China's “patrioti…
Seeking `Legitimate' Great Power Status in Post-Cold War International Society
This article joins the debates on hierarchies in international society. Drawing on the insights of the English School approach, it shows that the existence of socially legitimated great powers results in the emergence of `frustrated great powers', which are dissatisfied with their status in international society. By examining the participation of China and Japan in United Nations peacekeeping operations, it argues that `frustrated great powers' c…
Civilization and Empire
This book critically examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarous’ polities contributed to conflict between China and Japan. Challenging existing works that have presented the expansion of (European) International Society as a progressive, linear process, this book contends that imperialism – along with an ideology premised on ‘civilising’ ‘barbarous’ peoples – played…
Chinese Soft Power, Insecurity Studies, Myopia and Fantasy
This article is critical of a series of works on Chinese soft power which have garnered much attention in recent years. These works typically portray Chinese soft power, characterised by its disregard for Western models of development that propagate 'democratic governance', as a latent threat to global order. The article argues that such claims are premature, and to date there is little evidence of a systematic attempt by the Chinese to propagate…
Why Does China Participate in Intrusive Peacekeeping? Understanding Paternalistic Chinese Discourses on Development and Intervention
Why does China continue to participate in highly intrusive peacekeeping operations which, it can be argued, suspend the sovereignty of the host state and attempt to transform it into a liberal democratic, market capitalist state? This article highlights the significant role of Chinese paternalism in providing the ideological justification for intervening in states' domestic affairs. Focusing on the quasi-official annual publication, the China Mod…
The Competition to Attain Justice for Past Wrongs
This article joins the debate on transnational campaigns for Japanese historical wrongs in the Asia-Pacific by highlighting the collective "forgetting" on the part of the victims' society. Focusing on the Taiwanese "comfort women" issue, I argue that the "comfort women" campaign has been overshadowed by identity politics in Taiwan, and has subsequently lost ground to civil society debates about the KMT's repressive past. In the context of democra…
Europe and Japan
This article traces the historical evolution of the images of Europe in Japan. While the length of Japan’s interactions with Europe do not compare to those between China, Korea, and Japan, the Europeans have nevertheless played a significant role in the process of constructing a Japanese identity. While Europe initially played a part in consolidating ethnocentric notions of Japanese superiority, since the expansion of European International Socie…
Overcoming Past Wrongs Committed by States
This article investigates whether or not reconciliation for historical wrongs can be realized in the absence of a state apology. States have traditionally been notoriously reluctant to apologize for their past crimes, and this has often meant that victims are unable to attain closure while they are still alive. What, then, are the alternatives? This article examines the case of the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan’s Military Sex…
The Scandinavian International Society by Laust Schouenborg
International Orders in the Early Modern World
This chapter asks to what extent the English School concept of the ‘expansion of an European society of states’ helps us to understand early encounters between Europeans and non-Europeans on the Indian sub-continent. The chapter tests this framework through an in-depth analysis of official correspondence amongst members of the British East India Company at the founding moment of British sovereign authority on the Indian coast in the middle of the…
The exceptional state in Africa
China's relations with African states have undergone significant changes in recent years. China has projected its relationship with Africa as one of equality and ‘mutual help’. Such perceptions of foreign policy stem from the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and the shared experience of imperialist domination and economic underdevelopment. Moreover, various public statements by China's elites suggest that China is expected to play a much m…
Contesting International Society in East Asia
Bringing together some of the most innovative scholars in both the English School of international relations and East Asian studies, this volume investigates whether or not significant and distinct international social structures exist at the regional level represented by 'East Asia', and what this can tell us about international society both regionally and globally. The book's main finding is that the regional dispute over how its states and peo…
Why Do We Need ‘Myth-Busting’ in the Study of Sino–African Relations
The literature on Sino–African relations has debated whether or not China's growing presence is a threat to Western or African interests, and has come to the conclusion that China's behavior is not uniquely immoral. Many countries, including Western liberal democracies, similarly give aid to local autocrats to secure natural resources. Why, then, has so much effort been made to come to this perhaps unsurprising conclusion? We argue that the liter…
The rise of the Chinese ‘Other’ in Japan's construction of identity
Since 1945, the United States (US) has served as a focal point of both Left-wing and Right-wing Japanese nationalism. Both sides argued that the US was an arrogant hegemon that unjustly robbed Japan of its autonomy, and prevented Japan from achieving its own ideal national identity. Both sides frequently demanded that Japan should be more ‘resolute’ and resist unfair demands emanating from the US. In recent years, however, both camps are increasi…
Journey to the West
This article joins recent debates on China’s rise that claim the People’s Republic of China has become increasingly ‘assertive’. By examining discourses calling for China to emulate Western great powers, it demonstrates that there remains a powerful discourse within Chinese society which regards Western standards as the sole ‘benchmark’ for success and recognition in the international community. In doing so, the article introduces the concept of …
Explaining Japan's response to geopolitical vulnerability
Elite and public doubts in Japan about the country's economic and security relationships with both the United States and China, changes in the regional threat environment and the enhanced influence of revisionist conservatives in leadership positions over the past five years make conditions ripe for more muscular internal and external balancing by Japan. Despite this, recent changes to Japan's overall grand strategy and military posture remain in…
Peacekeeping
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Japanese revisionists and the ‘Korea threat’
This article contributes to the debate on Japanese security. Drawing on insights from ontological security, it challenges conventional understandings that China and North Korea are Japan’s main security threats. It argues that South Korea poses a powerful threat to the Japanese right-wing revisionists’ perception of Japan. The revisionists have attempted to secure Japan’s identity from the ‘Korea threat’ by labelling South Korea a ‘non-democracy’…
China, Responsibility to Protect, and the Case of Syria
Will the rise of China, an authoritarian, party-state with a poor record of protecting its citizens’ human rights, undermine humanitarian intervention? This question has been particularly pertinent since China’s “assertive turn” in foreign policy. Drawing on the case of Chinese reactions to the humanitarian crisis in Syria, this article argues that China’s attitude toward humanitarian intervention remains ambiguous and contradictory. While China …
Economic statecraft, interdependence, and Sino-Japanese ‘rivalry’
China’s increasingly active economic diplomacy in recent years has often been deeply linked to its geostrategic interests. Japan is said to be watching this development with alarm. Analysts have often claimed that this has resulted in Sino-Japanese rivalry, where the Japanese see any gains made by China in zero-sum terms, and make concerted efforts to counter China’s growing influence. This article, however, is critical of such views. While eleme…
That Distant Country Next Door
Reviewed by: That Distant Country Next Door: Popular Japanese Perceptions of Mao's China by Erik Esselstrom Shogo Suzuki (bio) That Distant Country Next Door: Popular Japanese Perceptions of Mao's China. By Erik Esselstrom. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2019. x, 230 pages. $68.00. Erik Esselstrom's new book reveals the complexities of Japanese perceptions toward the PRC in Japanese society. The author does this by excavating the "everyda…
Great Power Strategies
Political science (24 obras) · Law (21 obras) · China (18 obras) · Sociology (18 obras) · Politics (16 obras) · Political economy (14 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Economics (10 obras) · Japanese History and Culture (10 obras) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (8 obras)