Giulio Pugliese
Biographic Data
| ID | 3787176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giulio Pugliese |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giulio |
| FAMILY NAME | Pugliese |
| SIGNATURE | PUGLIESE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1365-3540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The European Union and an “Indo-Pacific” Alignment
Published online: 05 July 2024
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 …
Japan 2022: Putin and Abe Shocks thwart Kishida’s enjoyment of three golden years despite major defence overhaul
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the assassination of record-setting former Prime Minister Abe Shinzō impacted heavily on Japan’s domestic politics and international relations. Diplomatically, Tokyo forcefully aligned with its Western partners against Russia’s aggression while making progress in enhancing awareness that the European and Indo-Pacific strategic theatres are politically intertwined. In addition to doubling down on its alignment with…
L’Union européenne et l’Indo-Pacifique: La disparition de la « troisième voie »
Cet article affirme que la guerre en Ukraine a généré une convergence transatlantique plus importante. En réalité, la Boussole stratégique européenne adoptée à l’unanimité partage plus ou moins les préconisations du concept stratégique de l’Otan en 2022, qui pointe le retour d’un ordre mondial contesté et compliqué, caractérisé par des luttes de pouvoir où le révisionnisme russe ainsi que les violations manifestes des lois internationales se mêle…
Foreword. US-China Competition, Covid-19 and Democratic Backsliding in Asia
The European Union’s Security Intervention in the Indo-Pacific: Between Multilateralism and Mercantile Interests
Is the EU raising its political and security profile in the Indo-Pacific solely because of China’s assertiveness or US–China strategic competition, as often posited? On the basis of official documentation and elite interviews, this article advances a more nuanced view of the rationale behind the EU’s engagement there. Aside from increased European naval involvement the EU and its member states are fostering the capacity building of Indo-Pacific c…
Italy's embrace of the Belt and Road Initiative: Populist Foreign Policy and Political Marketing
Are populist governments harbingers of foreign policy disruption? The foreign policy of western Europe's first all-out populist coalition government constitutes a good window to address this question. Italy's 'Yellow-Green' government's decision to embrace China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2019 has been understood as an important rupture from Italy's traditional Euro-Atlantic foreign policy. On the basis of substantial empirical research,…
Japan 2021: The Liberal Democratic Party emerges stronger despite domestic tumult
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to impact the Japanese economy as well as the political fortunes of Japan’s leader in 2021. For the second year in a row, Japan’s Prime Minister was forced to stand down, portending a return to the revolving door of one-year prime ministerships that characterized the politically tumultuous period between 2006 and 2012. Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide’s announcement that he would not seek reappointment as president of…
The Political History of Modern Japan
Kitaoka Shinichi, a diplomatic historian and policy advisor who currently serves as the president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, has been a long-time advocate of raising Japan’s political profile and one of the leading intellectual forces behind Japan’s 2013 National Security Strategy. Before chairing a variety of advisory bodies responsible for overhauling Japan’s security regime under Abe Shinzō, Kitaoka updated an earlier textb…
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…
Diplomatic and security practice under Abe Shinzō: The case for Realpolitik Japan
In what ways are Japanese foreign and security policies changing? How far will these changes go? Will they result in a policy posture that breaks from the post-1945 approach as originally designed by Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru? This special issue presents six articles that address these questions. They tackle the relationship between recent changes in Japanese domestic policy institutions and Japanese diplomatic and security practice. In this…
The free and open Indo-Pacific versus the belt and road: Spheres of influence and Sino-Japanese relations
Recent scholarship suggests that the thawing of diplomatic relations between China and Japan has caused a readjustment of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative and Tokyo’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision towards an emerging complementarity. Through careful process-tracking, elite interviews, and analysis of Chinese and Japanese primary sources, this article instead demonstrates how, outside of the East Asian spotlight, Sino-Japanese geo-economic c…
"Covid-19 and the Reification of the US-China "Cold War
The implications of the pandemic for US-China relations are relevant for global peace and prosperity, well beyond the Asia-Pacific. Rather than joining forces against the pandemic, COVID-19 is among the factors that have widened the rift between the United States and China, bringing bilateral relations to their lowest level since Nixon and Kissinger's overtures in 1971. In fact, US-China zero-sum interactions across the geopolitical, economic, te…
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 2020: Abe’s well-laid plans go awry
policy characterized by growing resilience, fading responsibility and increasing uncertainty
Chūgoku Seiji Kara Mita Nitchū Kankei (Japan-China Relations Through the Prism of Chinese Politics)
This timely book by one of Japan’s most influential experts on contemporary China is a welcome overview of the evolution of post-Mao Chinese politics and their effects on Sino-Japanese relations. Since the book reads well and is nicely structured—apart from a few repetitions here and there—it is not immediately evident that it consists exclusively of a collection of earlier academic essays, some of which were written in the early 1990s. For these…
Japan 2016: Political stability amidst maritime contestation and historical reconciliation
Japan's Kissinger? Yachi Shōtarō: The State Behind the Curtain
This article reassesses the 2006 and, tentatively, the 2014 reset in Sino- Japanese relations to argue in favour of an increasingly state-centric understanding of Japanese diplomacy. By making use of a narrative account and a variety of primary sources—including personal memoirs, elite interviews, participatory observation, and leaked State Department cables—this article finds that Abe Shinzō's foreign policy confidante, Yachi Shōtarō, embodied t…
Japan 2015: Confronting East Asia’s Geopolitical Game of Go
Sino-Japanese Power Politics: Might, Money and Minds
This book is about Japan-China power politics in the military, economic and propaganda domains. The post-2012 standoff over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands has unveiled the antagonistic quality to
Kantei diplomacy? Japan's hybrid leadership in foreign and security policy
This article operationalizes Japanese leadership in foreign and security policy, specifically the Abe administrations’ consistent China balancing. It will do so to dispel instances of Premier-centered diplomacy and posit that Abe's diplomatic agenda has rested on a ‘hybrid’ policy-making authority, where the leverage enjoyed by the Prime Minister's office (the Kantei) rested on little-appreciated politicized personnel appointments and demotions w…
The China Challenge, Abe Shinzo’s Realism, and the Limits of Japanese Nationalism
The China-Japan standoff over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands has unleashed a top-down information war that has cemented the two governments’ positions over their territorial dispute. Under the Abe administration, Tokyo has stood up to an assertive China and drummed up nationalistic narratives of a virtuous Japanese “Self” (“us”) pitted against an aberrant and aggressive Chinese “Other” (“them”). It has done so along a markedly realist logic in order …
The free and open Indo-Pacific versus the belt and road: Spheres of influence and Sino-Japanese relations
Recent scholarship suggests that the thawing of diplomatic relations between China and Japan has caused a readjustment of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative and Tokyo’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision towards an emerging complementarity. Through careful process-tracking, elite interviews, and analysis of Chinese and Japanese primary sources, this article instead demonstrates how, outside of the East Asian spotlight, Sino-Japanese geo-economic c…
Kantei diplomacy? Japan's hybrid leadership in foreign and security policy
This article operationalizes Japanese leadership in foreign and security policy, specifically the Abe administrations’ consistent China balancing. It will do so to dispel instances of Premier-centered diplomacy and posit that Abe's diplomatic agenda has rested on a ‘hybrid’ policy-making authority, where the leverage enjoyed by the Prime Minister's office (the Kantei) rested on little-appreciated politicized personnel appointments and demotions w…
Diplomatic and security practice under Abe Shinzō: The case for Realpolitik Japan
In what ways are Japanese foreign and security policies changing? How far will these changes go? Will they result in a policy posture that breaks from the post-1945 approach as originally designed by Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru? This special issue presents six articles that address these questions. They tackle the relationship between recent changes in Japanese domestic policy institutions and Japanese diplomatic and security practice. In this…
Italy's embrace of the Belt and Road Initiative: Populist Foreign Policy and Political Marketing
Are populist governments harbingers of foreign policy disruption? The foreign policy of western Europe's first all-out populist coalition government constitutes a good window to address this question. Italy's 'Yellow-Green' government's decision to embrace China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2019 has been understood as an important rupture from Italy's traditional Euro-Atlantic foreign policy. On the basis of substantial empirical research,…
The European Union’s Security Intervention in the Indo-Pacific: Between Multilateralism and Mercantile Interests
Is the EU raising its political and security profile in the Indo-Pacific solely because of China’s assertiveness or US–China strategic competition, as often posited? On the basis of official documentation and elite interviews, this article advances a more nuanced view of the rationale behind the EU’s engagement there. Aside from increased European naval involvement the EU and its member states are fostering the capacity building of Indo-Pacific c…
Japan's Kissinger? Yachi Shōtarō: The State Behind the Curtain
This article reassesses the 2006 and, tentatively, the 2014 reset in Sino- Japanese relations to argue in favour of an increasingly state-centric understanding of Japanese diplomacy. By making use of a narrative account and a variety of primary sources—including personal memoirs, elite interviews, participatory observation, and leaked State Department cables—this article finds that Abe Shinzō's foreign policy confidante, Yachi Shōtarō, embodied t…
The China Challenge, Abe Shinzo’s Realism, and the Limits of Japanese Nationalism
The China-Japan standoff over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands has unleashed a top-down information war that has cemented the two governments’ positions over their territorial dispute. Under the Abe administration, Tokyo has stood up to an assertive China and drummed up nationalistic narratives of a virtuous Japanese “Self” (“us”) pitted against an aberrant and aggressive Chinese “Other” (“them”). It has done so along a markedly realist logic in order …
Japan 2015: Confronting East Asia’s Geopolitical Game of Go
Sino-Japanese Power Politics: Might, Money and Minds
This book is about Japan-China power politics in the military, economic and propaganda domains. The post-2012 standoff over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands has unveiled the antagonistic quality to
Kantei diplomacy? Japan's hybrid leadership in foreign and security policy
This article operationalizes Japanese leadership in foreign and security policy, specifically the Abe administrations’ consistent China balancing. It will do so to dispel instances of Premier-centered diplomacy and posit that Abe's diplomatic agenda has rested on a ‘hybrid’ policy-making authority, where the leverage enjoyed by the Prime Minister's office (the Kantei) rested on little-appreciated politicized personnel appointments and demotions w…
Japan 2016: Political stability amidst maritime contestation and historical reconciliation
Japan's Kissinger? Yachi Shōtarō: The State Behind the Curtain
This article reassesses the 2006 and, tentatively, the 2014 reset in Sino- Japanese relations to argue in favour of an increasingly state-centric understanding of Japanese diplomacy. By making use of a narrative account and a variety of primary sources—including personal memoirs, elite interviews, participatory observation, and leaked State Department cables—this article finds that Abe Shinzō's foreign policy confidante, Yachi Shōtarō, embodied t…
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 2020: Abe’s well-laid plans go awry
policy characterized by growing resilience, fading responsibility and increasing uncertainty
Chūgoku Seiji Kara Mita Nitchū Kankei (Japan-China Relations Through the Prism of Chinese Politics)
This timely book by one of Japan’s most influential experts on contemporary China is a welcome overview of the evolution of post-Mao Chinese politics and their effects on Sino-Japanese relations. Since the book reads well and is nicely structured—apart from a few repetitions here and there—it is not immediately evident that it consists exclusively of a collection of earlier academic essays, some of which were written in the early 1990s. For these…
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…
Diplomatic and security practice under Abe Shinzō: The case for Realpolitik Japan
In what ways are Japanese foreign and security policies changing? How far will these changes go? Will they result in a policy posture that breaks from the post-1945 approach as originally designed by Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru? This special issue presents six articles that address these questions. They tackle the relationship between recent changes in Japanese domestic policy institutions and Japanese diplomatic and security practice. In this…
The free and open Indo-Pacific versus the belt and road: Spheres of influence and Sino-Japanese relations
Recent scholarship suggests that the thawing of diplomatic relations between China and Japan has caused a readjustment of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative and Tokyo’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision towards an emerging complementarity. Through careful process-tracking, elite interviews, and analysis of Chinese and Japanese primary sources, this article instead demonstrates how, outside of the East Asian spotlight, Sino-Japanese geo-economic c…
"Covid-19 and the Reification of the US-China "Cold War
The implications of the pandemic for US-China relations are relevant for global peace and prosperity, well beyond the Asia-Pacific. Rather than joining forces against the pandemic, COVID-19 is among the factors that have widened the rift between the United States and China, bringing bilateral relations to their lowest level since Nixon and Kissinger's overtures in 1971. In fact, US-China zero-sum interactions across the geopolitical, economic, te…
Japan 2021: The Liberal Democratic Party emerges stronger despite domestic tumult
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to impact the Japanese economy as well as the political fortunes of Japan’s leader in 2021. For the second year in a row, Japan’s Prime Minister was forced to stand down, portending a return to the revolving door of one-year prime ministerships that characterized the politically tumultuous period between 2006 and 2012. Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide’s announcement that he would not seek reappointment as president of…
The Political History of Modern Japan
Kitaoka Shinichi, a diplomatic historian and policy advisor who currently serves as the president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, has been a long-time advocate of raising Japan’s political profile and one of the leading intellectual forces behind Japan’s 2013 National Security Strategy. Before chairing a variety of advisory bodies responsible for overhauling Japan’s security regime under Abe Shinzō, Kitaoka updated an earlier textb…
Foreword. US-China Competition, Covid-19 and Democratic Backsliding in Asia
The European Union’s Security Intervention in the Indo-Pacific: Between Multilateralism and Mercantile Interests
Is the EU raising its political and security profile in the Indo-Pacific solely because of China’s assertiveness or US–China strategic competition, as often posited? On the basis of official documentation and elite interviews, this article advances a more nuanced view of the rationale behind the EU’s engagement there. Aside from increased European naval involvement the EU and its member states are fostering the capacity building of Indo-Pacific c…
Italy's embrace of the Belt and Road Initiative: Populist Foreign Policy and Political Marketing
Are populist governments harbingers of foreign policy disruption? The foreign policy of western Europe's first all-out populist coalition government constitutes a good window to address this question. Italy's 'Yellow-Green' government's decision to embrace China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2019 has been understood as an important rupture from Italy's traditional Euro-Atlantic foreign policy. On the basis of substantial empirical research,…
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 …
Japan 2022: Putin and Abe Shocks thwart Kishida’s enjoyment of three golden years despite major defence overhaul
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the assassination of record-setting former Prime Minister Abe Shinzō impacted heavily on Japan’s domestic politics and international relations. Diplomatically, Tokyo forcefully aligned with its Western partners against Russia’s aggression while making progress in enhancing awareness that the European and Indo-Pacific strategic theatres are politically intertwined. In addition to doubling down on its alignment with…
L’Union européenne et l’Indo-Pacifique: La disparition de la « troisième voie »
Cet article affirme que la guerre en Ukraine a généré une convergence transatlantique plus importante. En réalité, la Boussole stratégique européenne adoptée à l’unanimité partage plus ou moins les préconisations du concept stratégique de l’Otan en 2022, qui pointe le retour d’un ordre mondial contesté et compliqué, caractérisé par des luttes de pouvoir où le révisionnisme russe ainsi que les violations manifestes des lois internationales se mêle…
The European Union and an “Indo-Pacific” Alignment
Published online: 05 July 2024
Political science (22 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (16 works) · China (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (6 works) · History (5 works)