Dear Colleagues,

The world order as we know it is undergoing profound changes, and in its
wake, so is foreign aid. I would therefore like to draw your attention
to a new book on Japanese Development Cooperation, published by
Routledge and edited by Professor Marie Söderberg and myself. While the
price may be a bit steep for personal consumption the book may very well
be a valuable addition to your institute, organization, or department’s
library.

Title: Japanese Development Cooperation: The Making Of an Aid
Architecture Pivoting to Asia
Editors: André Asplund and Marie Söderberg
Copyright Year: 2017
Publisher: Routledge, Oxon, UK
Hardback ISBN: 978-1-138-22241-0
https://www.routledge.com/Japanese-Development-Cooperation-The-Making-of-an-Aid-Architecture-Pivoting/Asplund-Soderberg/p/book/9781138222410

This book examines Japan’s development assistance as it transitions
away from Official Development Assistance and towards Development
Cooperation. In this transition, the strong and reciprocal relationships
between Japanese development policy and comprehensive security,
diplomacy, foreign, domestic and economic policies are likely to become
even more consolidated and integrated. The utilization of, and changes
within, Japanese development policy therefore affects not only
recipients of foreign aid but also the relationships Japan enjoys with
its allies and strategic partners, as well as the relations to competing
donors and rivals in the region and around the world. Japanese foreign
aid as such provides an extremely interesting case from where regional
and even global changes can be understood. Written by a
multidisciplinary team of contributors from the fields of political
science, international relations, development, economics, public opinion
and Japan studies, the book sets out to be innovative in capturing the
essence of the changing patterns of development cooperation, and more
importantly, Japan’s role within it, in an era of great change.

Best wishes,

André

André Asplund, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer
Council on East Asia Studies
Yale University
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New Haven CT 06511

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