Policy Concepts and Normative Rationales in Japan’s Foreign Aid: Human Security, TICAD, and Free and Open Indo-Pacific

2022 ◽  
pp. 3-22
Author(s):  
Shinichi Takeuchi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Human Security

scholarly journals Addressing Human Security in Japan’s Foreign Policy Towards the Developing Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Karina Utami Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Human Security

The main purpose of this research is to discuss about Japan’s foreign policy taken in ODA and the decision to have its foreign aid shifted towards more humanitarian issues, such as human security. This research will attempt to answer the question: how does the shift in Japan’s foreign aid influence the recipient countries in terms of Human Security? To measure such influence of policy, this research chose one of the elements in human security, which is health and selected six countries from Asia and Africa as the ODA’s recipient regions. There will be two focuses in this research. First, explaining the reason and the influence of the shift in Japan’s foreign policy to human security. Second, arguing the motivation behind the shift as well as Japan’s actual priority.

scholarly journals China's and Japan's Foreign Aid Policies vis-à-vis Lusophone Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Miguel Amakasu Raposo de Medeiros Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Poverty Eradication ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Aid Allocation ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
Trade And Investment ◽  
Model Approach

This article compares the evolution of China's and Japan's foreign policies to Lusophone Africa, focusing on the period post-2000. The lack of analysis on Beijing's and Tokyo's respective aid policies towards Portuguese-speaking African countries (Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa, PALOP) makes this study relevant. Arguably, Japan's development “edge” over China in terms of the “aid model” approach towards PALOP countries is under threat. This raises questions about China's changing pattern of aid, characterised by an increasing amount of “soft” aid towards PALOP states outside of trade and investment relations, which is much in line with Japan's aid philosophy and, according to observers, less neocolonialist than Japan's previous aid practices. This paper asks which model of cooperation is morally better and which is more effective, as both donors have interests in PALOP countries beyond development assistance. It finds complementarities in the two countries’ aid allocation to PALOP states, such as poverty eradication given the sectoral diversity of Chinese aid, and the empowerment of local communities fostered by Japanese aid's emphasis on grassroots and human-security projects.

Japan’s Human Security Policy: New Pressures, New Responses

2015 ◽  
Vol 07 (04) ◽  
pp. 88-98
Author(s):  
Maria Thaemar Camanag TANA
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Security Policies ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Levels

This paper explores the impact of Japan’s new security posture on its human security policy. By looking at external and internal factors and by examining the interaction among different actors at different levels, the paper argues that despite the changes in Japan’s foreign aid and security policies, Japan will continue to pursue human security as a pillar in its foreign policy.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Large-Scale Forced Migration in Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (21) ◽  
pp. 4210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Bayar ◽  
Mustafa M. Aral
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
National Security ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Policy Planning ◽  
Policy Tool ◽  
Interstate Conflicts

In this paper, human security-related causes of large-scale forced migration (LSFM) in Africa are investigated for the period 2011–2017. As distinct from the conventional understanding of (national) security, human security involves economic, public health, environmental and other aspects of people’s wellbeing. Testing various hypotheses, we have found that civil and interstate conflicts, lack of democracy and poverty are the most important drivers of mass population displacements, whereas climate change has an indirect effect on the dependent variable. As a policy tool, foreign aid is also tested to see if it lowers the probability of LSFM. Our findings have implications for policy planning, since the conventional understanding of security falls short of addressing LSFM without taking various aspects of human security into account.

Canadian foreign aid for global health: Human security opportunity lost

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry M. Spiegel ◽  
Robert Huish
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Human Security
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