1st Edition
Oil, Nationalism, and Japan’s Diplomacy in the Middle East
Introduction: The Middle East in Post-war Japan: Its Definition and Conceptualisation
1. Idemitsu Sazō and the Politics of Iranian Oil
2. Yamashita Tarō and Japan’s Oil Ventures in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
3. Tanaka Seigen and the BP-Abu Dhabi Connection in Japan’s Oil Diplomacy
4. Sugimoto Shigeru and the Making of Abu Dhabi Oil
5. Nakatani Takeyo and Japan’s Middle East Policy
Conclusion: Resource-Oriented Business Elites and the Origins of Japan’s Middle East Oil Diplomacy
Biography
Sinan Levent is an Associate Professor at Ankara University, specializing in International Relations. His research focuses on East Asia, particularly Japanese foreign policy, Japan-Middle East relations, Eurasian geopolitics and modern political and diplomatic history. He is the author of Sekiyu to Nashonarizumu (Oil and Nationalism), published in Japanese in 2022, a work that earned him the 35th Asia-Pacific Special Award in 2023, jointly presented by the Mainichi Shimbun and the Asian Affairs Research Council in Japan.
