Dear SSJ-Forum members,

With apologizes for cross-posting, we are pleased to announce the publication of our new edited volume entitled 'Risk State: Japan's Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty'. Employing the theoretical prism of 'risk' to Japan's post-Cold War foreign policy-making process this book offers a rich portfolio of policy analysis on traditional and non-traditional security issues including Japan's response to its territorial disputes, terrorism, disaster diplomacy, and environmental pollution. Below please find detailed information on our volume's contents.

Book details:
RISK STATE: JAPAN'S FOREIGN POLICY IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY. Rethinking Asian and International Series.
Edited by Sebastian Maslow, Ra Mason and Paul O'Shea.
Farnham, UK: Ashgate. 2015. 202 pp. (Figures, tables).
ISBN 978-1-4724-1713-8.

Book description:
The increase of new complex security challenges and the heightening significance of a diverse array of actors has simultaneously posed a challenge to traditional perspectives on international relations and foreign policy and created an opportunity for new concepts to be applied. Conventional explanations of Japan's foreign policy have provided us with theoretically predetermined understandings and fallacious predictions. Reformulating risk in its application to the study of international relations and foreign policy, this volume promises new insights into the analysis of contemporary foreign policy in East Asia and Japan's post-Cold War international relations in particular.

Contents:
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Foreword by David Leheny
Preface and Acknowledgment
Abbreviations and Conventions
Part I Introduction
1. Risk recalibration in Japan's foreign policy-making by Ra Mason, Paul O'Shea and Sebastian Maslow Part II Risks and Responses 2. Internal and external risks to Japan's Northern Territories policy by Paul O'Shea 3. North Korea and the politics of risk-framing in Japan by Ra Mason and Sebastian Maslow 4. Risk in Japan's militarization of Okinawa against China by Key-young Son and Ra Mason 5. Redirecting security narratives and institutions in Japan's response to 9/11 by Lorenz Denninger 6. Risks of sameness, the 'rise of China' and Japan's ontological security by Kai Schulze 7. Japan's foreign policy and transnational environmental risks by Asami Miyazaki 8. Risk management, disaster diplomacy and the struggle for national identity in Japan by Yoshiko Yamada and Daniel Clausen Part III Conclusions 9. Risking change in Japan's foreign policy by Paul O'Shea, Ra Mason and Sebastian Maslow Index

For more details on this volume please visit the following link: http://goo.gl/1shFdB

We hope you will find this volume of interest.

Sincerely,
Sebastian Maslow, Ra Mason, and Paul O'Shea