Afghanistan and Pakistan: Time for the Hatoyama Administration to Show Japan's Latent Power [pdf], Center for Strategic and International Studies, 18 November 2009
EXCERPT: "The challenges of war and state-building in Afghanistan, and their implications for the stability of Pakistan, provide an opportunity for the new government in Tokyo to put its distinctive stamp on foreign policy by charting a progressive path for Japan as an active provider of collective goods of peace and security in a rapidly changing international system. A bold new Japanese initiative on 'AfPak' would advance multiple goals of the new Democratic Party-led government: strengthening the U.S.-Japan alliance while putting the allies on more equal footing; putting Japan’s moral and material weight even more firmly on the side of majorities in the region who seek security, good governance, and economic opportunity; and signaling to both Japan’s friends and competitors in the international system that a country wrongly believed to be in a state of terminal decline can renew itself as a civilian great power that punches its full weight and should not be dismissed amid premature euphoria over the inexorable rise of the 'BRICs.'"
Read the full report [pdf].
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