1st Edition

Japanese Development Cooperation The Making of an Aid Architecture Pivoting to Asia

Edited By André Asplund, Marie Soderberg Copyright 2017
236 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The world order as we know it is currently undergoing profound changes, and in its wake, so is foreign aid. Donors of foreign aid, development assistance or development cooperation around the world are already facing new challenges in the changing development architecture. This is an architecture that globally seems to become increasingly forgiving of foreign aid as a win-win concept that also... Read more

1. Global Change: Japan’s Role in the Making of a New Aid Architecture

Marie Söderberg

2. The Peculiarities of Japan’s ODA and the Implications for African Development

Motoki Takahashi and Masumi Owa

3. Aligning Policy with Practice: Japanese ODA and Normative Values

André Asplund

4. The Development Cooperation Paradigm Under the "New Partnership" and its Implications for Japan’s Aid

Yasutami Shimomura

5. The Securitization of Japan’s ODA: New Strategies in Changing Regional and Domestic Contexts

Raymond Yamamoto

6. The US Pivot to Asia and Japan’s Development Cooperation Charter

Yoneyuki Sugita

7. Japanese ODA and The Challenge of Chinese Aid in Africa

David Arase

8. The Changing Global Aid Architecture: An Opportunity for Japan to Play a Proactive Global Role?

Masumi Owa

9. Comparing Japan and the European Union: The Development Cooperation Policies of Two Civilian Powers

Bart Gaens

 

10. Network-based Development Cooperation as a Way Forward for Japan

Izumi Ohno

11. The Impact of Public Opinion on Japan’s Aid Policy: Before and After the New Development Assistance Charter

Paul Midford

12. An Asian Aid Paradigm: Japan Leading from Behind

André Asplund and Marie Söderberg

Biography

André Asplund is a Post-doctoral Associate and Lecturer at the Program in Japanese Politics and Diplomacy, Yale University, USA.

Marie Söderberg is a Professor and the Director of the European Institute of Japanese Studies at Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.