Akitoshi Miyashita is Associate Professor of International Relations at Tokyo International University. He is co-editor of Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific: Domestic Interests, American Pressure, and Regional Integration (2001).

• Part 1 Puzzle, Theory, and MethodologyChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 American Pressure and Japanese Foreign AidChapter 4 Gaiatsu and PreferencesPart 5 CasesChapter 6 China: The Tiananmen Square Incident and the Resumption of Yen LoansChapter 7 Vietnam: Lifting Bilateral and Multilateral Aid SanctionsChapter 8 Russia: The Retreat from the Linkage StrategyChapter 9 Iran: The Controversy over the Hydroelectric Power Plant ProjectChapter 10 North Korea: The KEDO and the Politics of Burden-SharingPart 11 Conclusions and ImplicationsChapter 12 Structural Constraints of Japanese PowerChapter 13 Rethinking the Reactive-Proactive Debate

Miyashita operates in a realist world and sets the research question in the broader context of Japan's rise in the interstate hierarchy over the past few decades. He reminds us that Japan has not truly escaped its asymmetric dependence on the United States. The analytic precision that is brought to bear allows this study to eclipse other work in this area.

Akitoshi Miyashita is Associate Professor of International Relations at Tokyo International University. He is co-editor of Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific: Domestic Interests, American Pressure, and Regional Integration (2001).

• Part 1 Puzzle, Theory, and MethodologyChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 American Pressure and Japanese Foreign AidChapter 4 Gaiatsu and PreferencesPart 5 CasesChapter 6 China: The Tiananmen Square Incident and the Resumption of Yen LoansChapter 7 Vietnam: Lifting Bilateral and Multilateral Aid SanctionsChapter 8 Russia: The Retreat from the Linkage StrategyChapter 9 Iran: The Controversy over the Hydroelectric Power Plant ProjectChapter 10 North Korea: The KEDO and the Politics of Burden-SharingPart 11 Conclusions and ImplicationsChapter 12 Structural Constraints of Japanese PowerChapter 13 Rethinking the Reactive-Proactive Debate

Miyashita operates in a realist world and sets the research question in the broader context of Japan's rise in the interstate hierarchy over the past few decades. He reminds us that Japan has not truly escaped its asymmetric dependence on the United States. The analytic precision that is brought to bear allows this study to eclipse other work in this area.

Akitoshi Miyashita is Associate Professor of International Relations at Tokyo International University. He is co-editor of Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific: Domestic Interests, American Pressure, and Regional Integration (2001).

• Part 1 Puzzle, Theory, and MethodologyChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 American Pressure and Japanese Foreign AidChapter 4 Gaiatsu and PreferencesPart 5 CasesChapter 6 China: The Tiananmen Square Incident and the Resumption of Yen LoansChapter 7 Vietnam: Lifting Bilateral and Multilateral Aid SanctionsChapter 8 Russia: The Retreat from the Linkage StrategyChapter 9 Iran: The Controversy over the Hydroelectric Power Plant ProjectChapter 10 North Korea: The KEDO and the Politics of Burden-SharingPart 11 Conclusions and ImplicationsChapter 12 Structural Constraints of Japanese PowerChapter 13 Rethinking the Reactive-Proactive Debate

Miyashita operates in a realist world and sets the research question in the broader context of Japan's rise in the interstate hierarchy over the past few decades. He reminds us that Japan has not truly escaped its asymmetric dependence on the United States. The analytic precision that is brought to bear allows this study to eclipse other work in this area.