Foreign Policy Alignment With The War On Terror: The Case Of Japan’S Foreign Aid Program

Authors

J P. Tuman, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
J R. Strand, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
M Shirali, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2017

Publication Title

Journal of East Asian Studies

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Volume

17

Issue

3

First page number:

343

Last page number:

354

Abstract

Many scholars have suggested that Japan aligned its foreign policy with the US War on Terror. Part of Japan’s alignment is said to have involved disbursement of foreign aid to support the US in Afghanistan and Iraq, and with other security interests associated with the War on Terror. To date, however, there has been little empirical study of this question. Employing a data set on Japanese aid to 133 countries between 1995 and 2008, we examine the War on Terror and Japanese ODA. We find that Japanese aid was aligned with some security interests in the War on Terror, but the effects were mixed.

Language

english

Repository Citation

Tuman, J. P., Strand, J. R., Shirali, M. (2017). Foreign Policy Alignment With The War On Terror: The Case Of Japan’S Foreign Aid Program. Journal of East Asian Studies, 17(3), 343-354. Cambridge University Press.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jea.2017.14