@article{ref1,
title="Peacekeeping in Japanese security policy: International-domestic contexts interaction",
journal="European journal of international relations",
year="2011",
author="Singh, Bhubhindar",
volume="17",
number="3",
pages="429-451",
abstract="This article analyses how peacekeeping became available to Japan as a policy option during the early 1990s and, thereafter, a part of the national security discourse through the international-domestic contexts interaction approach. The international context refers to the nature (culture) of the international environment at a particular period of time defined by the dominant norms that govern inter-state relations. It also highlights the policy options available to states. The domestic context refers to the nature of the leadership within a state that interprets the international norms and incorporates them into the domestic agenda. Japan's implementation of the peacekeeping policy was a result of the collective security norms that defined the international environment during the early 1990s and the re-emergence of the revisionists within the Japanese political system -- a group that embraced the collective security norms and pushed for the peacekeeping policy in the hope of expanding Japanese security policy in the post-Cold War period.<p />",
language="",
issn="1354-0661",
doi="10.1177/1354066110364422",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066110364422"
}