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Vincent Kelly Pollard, Globalization, Democratization and Asian Leadership: Power Sharing, Foreign Policy and Society in the Philippines and Japan. Aldershot, England/ Brookfield, USA/ Singapore/ Sydney: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2004; reprinted, 2007, 2008. xii, 204 pages. 22 tables, 2 figures, index. ISBN 0 7546 1539 1.
Summary
This book is an application and a critique of democratic theory to the domestic and international politics of foreign policy making.
The foreign policies of presidents, prime ministers and their foreign secretaries can be influenced by the preferences of domestic and international nongovernmental actors, as well as those of other governments. Representative democracy, media power, citizen activism and the globalization of politics and telecommunications, for example, have accelerated changes in the sharing of power. This book focuses on Philippines and Japan where, willingly and unwillingly, foreign policy executives share power with individuals and groups inside and outside of government bureaucracies and their societies.
The book retells the foreign policy narratives of regional cooperation, military relations and official development assistance ("foreign aid"), revealing how executive foreign policy makers and civil society organizations share power and succeed or fail in a globalizing, democratizing world.
A variety of published, unpublished and declassified sources provide journalists, scholars, government practitioners and global citizens with a sophisticated understanding of the domestic politics of foreign policy making, as well as its intergovernmental and transnational side.
Top of this page.Going beyond the doctoral dissertation on which is based ("Executive Power in Foreign Policy Making: Stretched Organizational Pluralism and Social Process in the Philippines and Japan," University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 1998), this book also accomplishes the following more specific achievements:
- Shows how the Association of South East Asian
Nations (ASEAN) was rooted not only in anticommunism and transnational
elite collaboration in Southeast Asia but also that the Philippines'
decision to join as a co-founder of ASEAN was embedded in President
Marcos's management of domestic elite conflict in the Philippines during
the 1967 Senate election campaign.
- Painstakingly demonstrates that President "Cory"
Aquino's "open-options" stance on the future of the U.S.-Philippines
Military Bases Agreement was not a good metaphor for the full range of her
military relations policies, and also that "information asymmetry" and a
commitment to redemocratization helped her in the short run but created
conditions that, in the end, undercut her ability to gain approval for a
renegotiated the treaty with the Americans.
- Reveals how a steady focus on weapons of mass
destruction (nuclear bombs) gave opponents of American military bases in
the Philippines a political wedge to build opposition to any extension of
the U.S.-Philippines Military Bases Agreement.
- Explains how small organizations of Japanese women,
human rights and environmental activists are sometimes able to use the
1992 Official Development Assistance ("foreign aid") conditionalities,
i.e., the 30 June 1992 Cabinet ODA Charter, to prevent the Foreign
Ministry from promoting detrimental changes in Asian countries.
- Modifies democratic theory to emphasize how skill in power sharing for government executives and nongovernmental organizations alike is the key to success or failure in achieving foreign policy goals in diverse representative democracies like the Philippines and Japan.
Contents
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List of Tables. List of Figures. Preface. Acknowledgements. Chapter 1 - Democratization, Globalization and Plural
Governance.
Reference list.
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contents, "Preface," Chapters 1-9, index or reference list of
Globalization, Democratization and Asian Leadership: Power Sharing,
Foreign Policy and Society in the Philippines and Japan (Aldershot,
England: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2004, 2007):
• Crystal Carpenito's summary of her
interview with Pollard, in Kapi‘o, vol. 37, no. 28 (27
April 2004), p. 7.
• Or read an unedited transcript of
the interview.
• James A. Dator, Professor of Political Science and Director,
Hawai‘i Research Center for Futures Studies, University of
Hawai‘i at Mānoa:
• Yasumasa Kuroda, Professor Emeritus of Political Science,
University of Hawai-i at Mānoa:
• From The Fulbrighters' Newsletter:
• From the German Association for Social Science Research on
Japan (VSJF): • From University of Chicago Magazine:
• From Book News:
• Recommended by Rob Norton and Joanne Franklin, YBP Library
Services Bibliographers), "Current Topics — Globalization,"
Academia — An Online Magazine and Resource for Librarians [YBP
Library Services],
November 2005.
• Brief review in Reference & Research Book News, vol.
19, issue 4 (November 2004), p. 160.
• "Class Notes," Malamalama, vol. 29, no. 3 (September
2004), p. 17.
• "Book on Globalization, Democratization and Asian Leadership,"
Other News, J-Current [Center for Japanese Studies, University of
Hawai‘i at Mānoa], vol. 7, no.
3 (Summer 2004), p. 6, col. 1.
• "Asia and GlobalizationLook inside this book
Interview
Recommendations
"Dr Pollard has written a book that weaves skillfully
together many recent strands of foreign, military and domestic politics in
the Philippines and Japan ... His book is valuable to area specialists as
well as to anyone interested in learning more about the complexity of
politics in general."
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"The author makes good use of his experience and
knowledge of the Philippines and Japan to skillfully capture how their
leaders, bureaucrats and NGOs deal with the wave of globalization and
democratization sweeping those countries...The reader will find his
extensive use of the property-space concept, tables and diagrams in
describing and explaining policies, models, and ideas very
reader-friendly. They help the reader get a quick view of timely and key
sets of ideas in a nutshell."
Noted
"[Pollard's] book refines democratic theory, using the
quality of power-sharing as the best predictor of success or failure in
foreign policy by government practitioners or civil society organizations"
in "Fulbright Alumni Achievements" column, The Fulbrighters'
Newsletter [Fulbright Association], vol. 25, no. 3
[Fall 2004], p. 13, col. 2).
"[Pollard's] book retells the foreign
policy narratives of regional cooperation, military relations and official
development assistance ('foreign aid'), revealing how executive foreign
policy makers and civil society organizations share power and succeed or
fail in a globalizing, democratizing world" (Katia Meyer-Tien
[VSJF-Redaktion {editorship}], "Aktuelles weltweit — neuerscheinungen
['new publication']," Newsletter [Vereiningung fur
sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung e.V.], nr. 33 [Juli 2004]),
seite 60). [Scroll down to page 60.]
"The foreign policies of presidents, prime ministers and
their foreign secretaries can be influenced by the preferences of domestic
and international nongovernmental actors, as well as those of other
governments. Representative democracy, media power, citizen activism and
the globalization of politics and telecommunications, for example, have
accelerated changes in the sharing of power. [Pollard's] book focuses on
Philippines and Japan where, willingly and unwillingly, foreign policy
executives share power with individuals and groups inside and outside of
government bureaucracies and their societies" ("In Their Own Words," Political Science &
Law Section, University of Chicago Magazine, vol. 97, no. 2
[December 2004]).
"Although foreign policy is traditionally seen as a
near-exclusive realm of the executive, Pollard (U. of Hawai‘i at
Mānoa) notes that executives are often forced to share policy making
power with actors inside and outside of government and their own
societies. He offers a comparative examination of policy power sharing in
the Philippines and Japan, both of which have significant nongovernmental
public interest groups that sometimes have become competing centers of
foreign policy influence. He examines instances of regional
intergovernmental cooperation, military relations, and foreign aid and
development assistance in seeking to determine how the development of
power sharing arrangements occurs" (Books Matter, 2004 [Portland,
Oregon]).
Exhibitions
• Book exhibit, 2009.
• Book exhibit - one of three works featured, Center for Filipino Studies, 1st Annual Conference (theme: "Political Leadership among Filipino Americans: Theories and Practice"), California State University - East Bay, 3 October 2008.
Cited
• Akiko Nanami, "Showing Japan's Face or Creating Powerful Challengers? Are NGOs Really Partners in Japan's Foreign Aid?" Ph.D. dissertation (University of Canterbury, 2007), pp. 118 (fn. 57) and 308.
• Jörn Dosch, The Changing Dynamics of Southeast Asian Politics (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2007), pp. 28, 264 and 240.
• Alison Brysk, Global Good Samaritans: Human Rights as Foreign Policy (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 256.
"Foreign policies are preferences. These are preferences
of executive government officials to maintain or modify the international
system affecting the society, as well as how they affect people living
beyond the country's borders. But government officials are not the only
people with international preferences. Examining foreign policy making in
East and South East Asia will help us understand causes of success and
failure in the foreign policy arena. For expression of citizen preferences
in international affairs, the season of nongovernmental activity in
foreign policy making began earlier and has lasted longer than any
standing government expected.....
"The book compares the social process of foreign policy making in the
presidential Philippines and parliamentary Japan. In these countries,
highly motivated public interest groups (nongovernmental organizations)
sometimes become competing centers of influence inside, alongside and
outside official governments and have developed sophisticated power
sharing arrangements with one another in pursuing preferences beyond their
respective countries' national borders. Activists, practitioners, scholars
and citizens will want to learn more about this.
"Cases selected for this book include regional intergovernmental
cooperation, military relations and foreign aid or official development
assistance. Each is sufficiently pivotal in its implications to deserve
study on its own merits and for its immediate and longterm effects. That
any one of these cases may not typify every aspect of the social process
of foreign policy in the Republic of the Philippines or in Japan does not
make them less important. Long before the collapse of the Soviet Union
catapulted 'globalization' and its ideological sibling 'globalism' into
prominence, a planet-encircling mass communications news media was
wielding power domestically and internationally."
• Dr. Trudy Jacobsen, HIST 2102 ("Contemporary
Southeast Asia"), School of History, Philosophy, Religion, and
Classics, The University of Queensland, 2005, p. 7.
• Professor Belinda A. Aquino, Asian Studies 750 ("Research
Seminar: Southeast Asia"), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa,
Spring 2008 Semester — Chapters 1-2 (excerpts) and Chapter 5
(expanded version in Agcaoili's and Liongson's co-edited volume).
• Chapter 5 (excerpted, revised, translated into Chinese):
"Redesigning Asia's Military Landscape at the 1986 Constitutional
Commission of the Philippines," Leng zhan guo ji shi yan jiu
[Cold War International History Studies] [Center for Cold War
International History Studies,
华东师范大学 {East China Normal
University}], vol. 6 (2009), forthcoming.
• Chapter 9 (excerpted, revised): "Power Sharing, Plural
Governance, and Foreign Policy Success in the Philippines," Journal of Filipino
Studies, vol. 2 (2008).
• Chapter 5 (expanded, revised): "Nuclear Weapons and Foreign
Military Bases: Filipinos Declare Independence," in Essays on Ilokano
and Amianan Life, Language and Literature in Honor of Prof. Prescila
Llague Espiritu: Final Proceedings of the 2006 Nakem Centennial
Conference, eds. Aurelio S. Agcaoili and Raymond Ll. Liongson
(Honolulu: Ilokano and Philippine Drama and Film Program, University of
Hawai‘i at Mānoa in collaboration with Nakem Conference, Inc.,
and International Academy for Ilokano and Amianan Studies, 2007), pp.
139-192.
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print for classroom use. © 1999-2008, Vincent Kelly Pollard.
Preface (excerpt)
Assigned as course reading
Reprinted, translated
Ordering a copy
Borrow it
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