Japan's Relations with Muslim Asia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030342791)

This book offers a useful and extensive account of Japan's past discoveries and present interactions with Muslim states and societies across Asia. Bearing in mind the U.S.-led global meta-narrative of Islam spoken in tandem with security and threats, this book examines how this reconciles with Japan's self-proclaimed "values-based" approach to diplomacy across Asia in the twenty-first century. The author considers Japan's historic conceptualization and learning of Islam, and its acute needs for access to markets and energy from Muslim-majority states in Asia. He also argues that Japan securitizes Islam in a manner distinct from Western, Russian, or Chinese securitization today, but that Japan promotes itself as a model for human security and development across an Asia inclusive of Muslim states. Japan's approach to Islam and Muslim societies today offers much from which other great powers can learn.

Author: B. Bryan Barber
ISBN-10: 3030342794
ISBN-13: 9783030342791
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2019
Pages: 261
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.88d