Bert Edström
Biographic Data
| ID | 337540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bert Edström |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bert |
| FAMILY NAME | Edström |
| SIGNATURE | EDSTRÖM B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Security Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Twists and Turns in the Life of a Remarkable Scholar
In the early 1950s, Europe was still marked by the chaos and trauma caused by the world war that had ravaged the continent. Sweden was an exception. Stubbornly clinging to its centuries-long neutrality policy to the extent possible, the country had been spared many horrors other countries had had to endure. With its industrial apparatus intact, Sweden’s export of industrial goods and machinery expanded. In early January 1952, Cho Seung-bog (1922–…
The Untold Story of Onodera Makoto's February 1945 Warning of the Coming Soviet Attack
Onodera Makoto (1897-1987) served as the Japanese military attaché in Stockholm 1941-45. His accomplishments during WWII made him instantly famous when they became known to the public in 1985 with a documentary about him on NHK based on a memoir by his wife, Yuriko. One of his famous deeds took place in mid-February 1945 when he allegedly sent a telegram to the Japanese General Staff shortly after the Yalta Conference in February 1945 warning tha…
Japan's Evolving Foreign Policy Doctrine: From Yoshida to Miyazawa
Moral Nation: Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History , by Miriam Kingsberg
The forgotten success story: Japan and the methamphetamine problem
This paper examines Japan's policy towards methamphetamine (Japanese: hiropon). Opium has been used in Japan for medicinal purposes since 1722. However, it was strictly controlled. The result was that drug abuse was minuscule. This changed with the introduction of methamphetamine. During the Second World War hiropon was given by the military to fighter pilots and the signal corps in order to help them stay awake and alert. After 1945, the large m…
The Yoshida doctrine and the unipolar world
The changes in world politics and the upheavals in domestic Japanese politics from 1989 onwards can be surmised to have had an impact on Japan’s foreign policy. This article presents a comparison of Japan’s official foreign-policy doctrine, aptly called the ‘Yoshida doctrine’, before and after 1993. The study is based on data from policy speeches delivered by the prime ministers to the Diet. While elements of both continuity and change are discer…
Japan's foreign policy and human security
Following on from the first article about how human security has become part of the discourse of international relations and how it affects the Japanese state and its people in particular, this article examines the development of the concept with specific reference to its interpretation by different Japanese prime ministers and other leading politicians. It follows the concept from its origins within the United Nations Development Programme durin…
Japan's Twenty-First Century Foreign Policy: [email protected]
Japan in Europe and Sweden
Until Japan opened its shores in the 1850s, images of Japan in Europe were meagre and long outdated. In Sweden, attitudes to Japan have been heavily influenced by the writings of Carl Peter Thunberg from 1793 and by the lack of imperial traditions as well as the strong national respect for equality
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-ex
The International Cold Warrior: Ikeda Hayato
The turmoil around the 1960 security treaty revision is often seen as representing a dividing line in Japan’s postwar history. Yet, in the end, not much had happened. Soon after Kishi resigned, domestic politics calmed down and problems in the relations with the United States settled. The credit for this development was given to Kishi’s successor, Ikeda Hayato, a former finance ministry bureaucrat and consummate technocrat who was catapulted into…
The Internalization of The Cold War in Japan
Pekka Korhonen, The origin of the Idea of the Pacific Free Trade Area: A Study of Japanese Rhetorical Categories and Discussion on International Integration 1945-1968
The present book deals with the Japanese discussion on integration, The central concept are 'themes' and 'integration' around which the bulk of the study is organized.The 'themes' are the basic rhetorical categories over which more specific discussion of Japan's integration was conducted.To identify the themes that have been basic to the integration discussion, Korhonen mainly studies a selection of published texts by two economists, Kojima Kiyos…
Japan's Quest for a Role in the World: Roles Ascribed to Japan Nationally and Internationally 1969-1982
Japan's Quest for a Role in the World: Roles Ascribed to Japan Nationally and Internationally 1969-1982
The forgotten success story: Japan and the methamphetamine problem
This paper examines Japan's policy towards methamphetamine (Japanese: hiropon). Opium has been used in Japan for medicinal purposes since 1722. However, it was strictly controlled. The result was that drug abuse was minuscule. This changed with the introduction of methamphetamine. During the Second World War hiropon was given by the military to fighter pilots and the signal corps in order to help them stay awake and alert. After 1945, the large m…
Japan's foreign policy and human security
Following on from the first article about how human security has become part of the discourse of international relations and how it affects the Japanese state and its people in particular, this article examines the development of the concept with specific reference to its interpretation by different Japanese prime ministers and other leading politicians. It follows the concept from its origins within the United Nations Development Programme durin…
Japan's Quest for a Role in the World: Roles Ascribed to Japan Nationally and Internationally 1969-1982
Japan's Quest for a Role in the World: Roles Ascribed to Japan Nationally and Internationally 1969-1982
Pekka Korhonen, The origin of the Idea of the Pacific Free Trade Area: A Study of Japanese Rhetorical Categories and Discussion on International Integration 1945-1968
The present book deals with the Japanese discussion on integration, The central concept are 'themes' and 'integration' around which the bulk of the study is organized.The 'themes' are the basic rhetorical categories over which more specific discussion of Japan's integration was conducted.To identify the themes that have been basic to the integration discussion, Korhonen mainly studies a selection of published texts by two economists, Kojima Kiyos…
The Internalization of The Cold War in Japan
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-ex
The International Cold Warrior: Ikeda Hayato
The turmoil around the 1960 security treaty revision is often seen as representing a dividing line in Japan’s postwar history. Yet, in the end, not much had happened. Soon after Kishi resigned, domestic politics calmed down and problems in the relations with the United States settled. The credit for this development was given to Kishi’s successor, Ikeda Hayato, a former finance ministry bureaucrat and consummate technocrat who was catapulted into…
Japan in Europe and Sweden
Until Japan opened its shores in the 1850s, images of Japan in Europe were meagre and long outdated. In Sweden, attitudes to Japan have been heavily influenced by the writings of Carl Peter Thunberg from 1793 and by the lack of imperial traditions as well as the strong national respect for equality
Japan's Twenty-First Century Foreign Policy: [email protected]
Japan's foreign policy and human security
Following on from the first article about how human security has become part of the discourse of international relations and how it affects the Japanese state and its people in particular, this article examines the development of the concept with specific reference to its interpretation by different Japanese prime ministers and other leading politicians. It follows the concept from its origins within the United Nations Development Programme durin…
The Yoshida doctrine and the unipolar world
The changes in world politics and the upheavals in domestic Japanese politics from 1989 onwards can be surmised to have had an impact on Japan’s foreign policy. This article presents a comparison of Japan’s official foreign-policy doctrine, aptly called the ‘Yoshida doctrine’, before and after 1993. The study is based on data from policy speeches delivered by the prime ministers to the Diet. While elements of both continuity and change are discer…
The forgotten success story: Japan and the methamphetamine problem
This paper examines Japan's policy towards methamphetamine (Japanese: hiropon). Opium has been used in Japan for medicinal purposes since 1722. However, it was strictly controlled. The result was that drug abuse was minuscule. This changed with the introduction of methamphetamine. During the Second World War hiropon was given by the military to fighter pilots and the signal corps in order to help them stay awake and alert. After 1945, the large m…
Japan's Evolving Foreign Policy Doctrine: From Yoshida to Miyazawa
Moral Nation: Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History , by Miriam Kingsberg
The Untold Story of Onodera Makoto's February 1945 Warning of the Coming Soviet Attack
Onodera Makoto (1897-1987) served as the Japanese military attaché in Stockholm 1941-45. His accomplishments during WWII made him instantly famous when they became known to the public in 1985 with a documentary about him on NHK based on a memoir by his wife, Yuriko. One of his famous deeds took place in mid-February 1945 when he allegedly sent a telegram to the Japanese General Staff shortly after the Yalta Conference in February 1945 warning tha…
Twists and Turns in the Life of a Remarkable Scholar
In the early 1950s, Europe was still marked by the chaos and trauma caused by the world war that had ravaged the continent. Sweden was an exception. Stubbornly clinging to its centuries-long neutrality policy to the extent possible, the country had been spared many horrors other countries had had to endure. With its industrial apparatus intact, Sweden’s export of industrial goods and machinery expanded. In early January 1952, Cho Seung-bog (1922–…
Political science (12 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · History (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economic history (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Foreign policy (4 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (4 works) · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (4 works)