Sebastian Maslow
Biographic Data
| ID | 290824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sebastian Maslow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sebastian |
| FAMILY NAME | Maslow |
| SIGNATURE | MASLOW S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tohoku University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8529-9774 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rethinking change in Japan's security policy: Punctuated equilibrium theory and Japan's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Change in Japanese foreign and security policy has long been characterized as "incremental".However, Japan's response to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine provides an opportunity to reconsider this paradigm.In the aftermath of the 2014 annexation of Crimea, then-Prime Minister Abe Shinz chose not to put Crimea on the agenda, prioritizing instead relations with Russia.However, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio responded to the 2022 invasion by increasi…
Japan 2017: Defending the domestic and international status quo
The year 2017 proved a transitory testing time for the Abe administration, because the prime minister faced a series of new international and domestic hurdles.While the North Korean crisis dominated Japanese media, China and the US remained Japan's main strategic concern.Following the US's withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, Abe engaged the Trump White House and defused its protectionist and potentially isolationist «America …
The 2020/2021 Tokyo Olympics: Does Japan get the gold medal or the wooden spoon
The Tokyo 2020/2021 Olympics will go down in history as the 'Pandemic Games'. Postponed by a year due to Covid-19, they were eventually held despite broad public protest and amidst the Delta variant wave. Japan brought home a record haul of medals, yet Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide resigned in ignominy shortly after the Games ended. So, was Tokyo 2020/2021 a 'success' or a 'failure', and for whom? We examine the policy and politics of the Games, …
Japan 2019: Inaugurating a new era?
2019 ushered in a new era for Japan. The Cabinet framed the Reiwa era through a committee of experts responsible for its christening. The name was chosen with reference to a well-known medieval text of Japanese poetry, rather than ancient Chinese literature, a notable first. But did the imperial succession and the start of Reiwa actually reflect the dawn of a new era in Japanese domestic and international politics? By taking stock of primary sour…
Making the alliance even greater”: (Mis-)managing U.S.-Japan relations in the age of Trump
President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy questions the fundamentals of the global U.S.-led alliance network. Where other allies implemented hedging strategies, Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Shinzō pledged to “make the alliance even greater,” insisting that the bilateral ties were “airtight” and “stronger than ever before.” However, Trump’s approach to trade, détente with North Korea, and off-the-cuff remarks regarding nuclear weapons invigora…
Japan’s new arms export policies: Strategic aspirations and domestic constraints
This article examines the significance of the changes in Japan’s arms export policy following Prime Minister Abe Shinzō’s return to power in 2012—a topic which has so far received insufficient scholarly attention. Established in the 1960s and 1970s, Japan’s ‘virtual’ ban on arms exports was an expression of the country’s postwar anti-militarism. Yet, in keeping with Japan’s increasingly active role in security affairs, Abe lifted the ban on weapo…
Japan 2018: Fleshing out the «Free and Open Indo-Pacific» strategic vision
This year-in-review essay highlights the Abe administration's attempts at defining its Free and Open Indo-Pacific grand strategic vision with like-minded parties.It assesses Japan's engagement with states that have demonstrated active interest in the concept: the United States, Australia, India, France and the United Kingdom.The essay underscores the tension between Trump's extortionist and transactional instincts and the need for the US to engag…
Knowledge Regimes in Post-Developmental States: Assessing the Role of Think Tanks in Japan's Policymaking Process
Risk State: Japan's Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty
Contents: Foreword, David Leheny Preface. Part I Introduction: Risk recalibration in Japan's foreign policy-making, Ra Mason, Paul O'Shea and Sebastian Maslow. Part II Risks and Responses: Internal and external risks to Japan's Northern Territories policy, Paul O'Shea North Korea and the politics of risk-framing in Japan, Ra Mason and Sebastian Maslow Risk in Japan's militarization of Okinawa against China, Key-young Son and Ra Mason Redirecting …
China and Japan
The Sino-Japanese role relationship is one of the most important relationships for both countries, but it is not a constant. Despite a stable economic partnership since normalization, the People's Republic of China and Japan have never developed a stable political or geostrategic relationship. This chapter argues that the ascent of conservative and nationalistic interpretations of East Asia's colonial past in both nations has facilitated this tur…
A Blueprint for a Strong Japan? Abe Shinzō and Japan’s Evolving Security System
Abe Shinzō has pledged to “take Japan back” from its constraining postwar regime. Redesigned institutions for intelligence and security policy coordination and “proactive pacifism” have facilitated the exercise of collective self-defense and strengthened the US–Japan alliance. The evolving security system is accelerating the dilution of Japan’s pacifist norms
Reisengo Nihon no Boei Seisaku: Nichibei Domei Shinka no Kigen (Japan's Post-Cold War Defence Policy: The Origins of the Strengthened Japan-US Alliance)
Since its contested inception in 1960, the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between Japan and the US has served as the centrepiece for Tokyo’s defence policy and Washington’s strategic thinking toward the Asia–Pacific region. Initiated by postwar strategic bargaining between Japan and the US expressed in the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951 and enshrined in Japan’s ‘Yoshida doctrine’, the security alliance has paved Tokyo’s path toward…
Thinking Security: Foreign Policy Think Tanks in Japan
Yet Another Lost Decade? Whither Japan's North Korea Policy under Abe Shinzō
The return to power of Abe Shinzō and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) unfolded as tensions on the Korean peninsula mount. As a key advocate of the abduction lobby, Abe's rapid political rise since the early 2000s is closely connected with his role in promoting a hardline policy towards North Korea. Mobilizing a new nationalism in Japan, Abe's return as prime minister in December 2012 signals a rightward shift in Japanese politics. The current …
Clandestine Journalism in North Korea: A Review of Rimjin‐gang (http://www.asiapress.org/rimjingang/english/)
Nationalism 2.0 in Japan (http: (Www.2ch.net/)
Discussing Politics in Asia: A Blog Review of “East Asia Forum”
News Coverage in Perspective: A Review of “NewsOnJapan”
Networking”Against Human Trafficking in Japan: The Japan Network Against Trafficking in Persons (JNATIP) and the Polaris Project Japan
Digital Government” in Japan: A Selective Survey of Japanese Ministry Web Sites
Dispatched and Displaced: Rethinking Employment and Welfare Protection in Japan
The Hibiya Tent Village set up during New Year 2008/09 where 500 temporary workers gathered to seek food and shelter after their sudden job losses revealed the gradual process of deregulation of Japan's labor market that has taken place since the Koizumi administration and culminated in the revision of the Labor Dispatch Law in 2004. The work of the political scientist Margarita Estévez-Abe which describes the evolution of an employment-based wel…
Technorati Japan
Japan’s new arms export policies: Strategic aspirations and domestic constraints
This article examines the significance of the changes in Japan’s arms export policy following Prime Minister Abe Shinzō’s return to power in 2012—a topic which has so far received insufficient scholarly attention. Established in the 1960s and 1970s, Japan’s ‘virtual’ ban on arms exports was an expression of the country’s postwar anti-militarism. Yet, in keeping with Japan’s increasingly active role in security affairs, Abe lifted the ban on weapo…
Making the alliance even greater”: (Mis-)managing U.S.-Japan relations in the age of Trump
President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy questions the fundamentals of the global U.S.-led alliance network. Where other allies implemented hedging strategies, Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Shinzō pledged to “make the alliance even greater,” insisting that the bilateral ties were “airtight” and “stronger than ever before.” However, Trump’s approach to trade, détente with North Korea, and off-the-cuff remarks regarding nuclear weapons invigora…
Rethinking change in Japan's security policy: Punctuated equilibrium theory and Japan's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Change in Japanese foreign and security policy has long been characterized as "incremental".However, Japan's response to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine provides an opportunity to reconsider this paradigm.In the aftermath of the 2014 annexation of Crimea, then-Prime Minister Abe Shinz chose not to put Crimea on the agenda, prioritizing instead relations with Russia.However, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio responded to the 2022 invasion by increasi…
A Blueprint for a Strong Japan? Abe Shinzō and Japan’s Evolving Security System
Abe Shinzō has pledged to “take Japan back” from its constraining postwar regime. Redesigned institutions for intelligence and security policy coordination and “proactive pacifism” have facilitated the exercise of collective self-defense and strengthened the US–Japan alliance. The evolving security system is accelerating the dilution of Japan’s pacifist norms
Knowledge Regimes in Post-Developmental States: Assessing the Role of Think Tanks in Japan's Policymaking Process
Thinking Security: Foreign Policy Think Tanks in Japan
Dispatched and Displaced: Rethinking Employment and Welfare Protection in Japan
The Hibiya Tent Village set up during New Year 2008/09 where 500 temporary workers gathered to seek food and shelter after their sudden job losses revealed the gradual process of deregulation of Japan's labor market that has taken place since the Koizumi administration and culminated in the revision of the Labor Dispatch Law in 2004. The work of the political scientist Margarita Estévez-Abe which describes the evolution of an employment-based wel…
Technorati Japan
Discussing Politics in Asia: A Blog Review of “East Asia Forum”
News Coverage in Perspective: A Review of “NewsOnJapan”
Networking”Against Human Trafficking in Japan: The Japan Network Against Trafficking in Persons (JNATIP) and the Polaris Project Japan
Digital Government” in Japan: A Selective Survey of Japanese Ministry Web Sites
Dispatched and Displaced: Rethinking Employment and Welfare Protection in Japan
The Hibiya Tent Village set up during New Year 2008/09 where 500 temporary workers gathered to seek food and shelter after their sudden job losses revealed the gradual process of deregulation of Japan's labor market that has taken place since the Koizumi administration and culminated in the revision of the Labor Dispatch Law in 2004. The work of the political scientist Margarita Estévez-Abe which describes the evolution of an employment-based wel…
Nationalism 2.0 in Japan (http: (Www.2ch.net/)
Clandestine Journalism in North Korea: A Review of Rimjin‐gang (http://www.asiapress.org/rimjingang/english/)
Reisengo Nihon no Boei Seisaku: Nichibei Domei Shinka no Kigen (Japan's Post-Cold War Defence Policy: The Origins of the Strengthened Japan-US Alliance)
Since its contested inception in 1960, the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between Japan and the US has served as the centrepiece for Tokyo’s defence policy and Washington’s strategic thinking toward the Asia–Pacific region. Initiated by postwar strategic bargaining between Japan and the US expressed in the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951 and enshrined in Japan’s ‘Yoshida doctrine’, the security alliance has paved Tokyo’s path toward…
Thinking Security: Foreign Policy Think Tanks in Japan
Yet Another Lost Decade? Whither Japan's North Korea Policy under Abe Shinzō
The return to power of Abe Shinzō and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) unfolded as tensions on the Korean peninsula mount. As a key advocate of the abduction lobby, Abe's rapid political rise since the early 2000s is closely connected with his role in promoting a hardline policy towards North Korea. Mobilizing a new nationalism in Japan, Abe's return as prime minister in December 2012 signals a rightward shift in Japanese politics. The current …
China and Japan
The Sino-Japanese role relationship is one of the most important relationships for both countries, but it is not a constant. Despite a stable economic partnership since normalization, the People's Republic of China and Japan have never developed a stable political or geostrategic relationship. This chapter argues that the ascent of conservative and nationalistic interpretations of East Asia's colonial past in both nations has facilitated this tur…
A Blueprint for a Strong Japan? Abe Shinzō and Japan’s Evolving Security System
Abe Shinzō has pledged to “take Japan back” from its constraining postwar regime. Redesigned institutions for intelligence and security policy coordination and “proactive pacifism” have facilitated the exercise of collective self-defense and strengthened the US–Japan alliance. The evolving security system is accelerating the dilution of Japan’s pacifist norms
Risk State: Japan's Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty
Contents: Foreword, David Leheny Preface. Part I Introduction: Risk recalibration in Japan's foreign policy-making, Ra Mason, Paul O'Shea and Sebastian Maslow. Part II Risks and Responses: Internal and external risks to Japan's Northern Territories policy, Paul O'Shea North Korea and the politics of risk-framing in Japan, Ra Mason and Sebastian Maslow Risk in Japan's militarization of Okinawa against China, Key-young Son and Ra Mason Redirecting …
Knowledge Regimes in Post-Developmental States: Assessing the Role of Think Tanks in Japan's Policymaking Process
Japan 2018: Fleshing out the «Free and Open Indo-Pacific» strategic vision
This year-in-review essay highlights the Abe administration's attempts at defining its Free and Open Indo-Pacific grand strategic vision with like-minded parties.It assesses Japan's engagement with states that have demonstrated active interest in the concept: the United States, Australia, India, France and the United Kingdom.The essay underscores the tension between Trump's extortionist and transactional instincts and the need for the US to engag…
Japan 2019: Inaugurating a new era?
2019 ushered in a new era for Japan. The Cabinet framed the Reiwa era through a committee of experts responsible for its christening. The name was chosen with reference to a well-known medieval text of Japanese poetry, rather than ancient Chinese literature, a notable first. But did the imperial succession and the start of Reiwa actually reflect the dawn of a new era in Japanese domestic and international politics? By taking stock of primary sour…
Making the alliance even greater”: (Mis-)managing U.S.-Japan relations in the age of Trump
President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy questions the fundamentals of the global U.S.-led alliance network. Where other allies implemented hedging strategies, Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Shinzō pledged to “make the alliance even greater,” insisting that the bilateral ties were “airtight” and “stronger than ever before.” However, Trump’s approach to trade, détente with North Korea, and off-the-cuff remarks regarding nuclear weapons invigora…
Japan’s new arms export policies: Strategic aspirations and domestic constraints
This article examines the significance of the changes in Japan’s arms export policy following Prime Minister Abe Shinzō’s return to power in 2012—a topic which has so far received insufficient scholarly attention. Established in the 1960s and 1970s, Japan’s ‘virtual’ ban on arms exports was an expression of the country’s postwar anti-militarism. Yet, in keeping with Japan’s increasingly active role in security affairs, Abe lifted the ban on weapo…
Japan 2017: Defending the domestic and international status quo
The year 2017 proved a transitory testing time for the Abe administration, because the prime minister faced a series of new international and domestic hurdles.While the North Korean crisis dominated Japanese media, China and the US remained Japan's main strategic concern.Following the US's withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, Abe engaged the Trump White House and defused its protectionist and potentially isolationist «America …
The 2020/2021 Tokyo Olympics: Does Japan get the gold medal or the wooden spoon
The Tokyo 2020/2021 Olympics will go down in history as the 'Pandemic Games'. Postponed by a year due to Covid-19, they were eventually held despite broad public protest and amidst the Delta variant wave. Japan brought home a record haul of medals, yet Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide resigned in ignominy shortly after the Games ended. So, was Tokyo 2020/2021 a 'success' or a 'failure', and for whom? We examine the policy and politics of the Games, …
Rethinking change in Japan's security policy: Punctuated equilibrium theory and Japan's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Change in Japanese foreign and security policy has long been characterized as "incremental".However, Japan's response to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine provides an opportunity to reconsider this paradigm.In the aftermath of the 2014 annexation of Crimea, then-Prime Minister Abe Shinz chose not to put Crimea on the agenda, prioritizing instead relations with Russia.However, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio responded to the 2022 invasion by increasi…
Political science (20 works) · Law (14 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Library science (7 works) · Maslow's hierarchy of needs (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)