Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State - Paperback

by Sebastian Maslow (Editor), Christian Wirth (Editor)

Looking at Japan, traces crisis narratives across three decades and ten policy fields, with the aim of disentangling discursively manufactured crises from actual policy failures.

Author Biography

Sebastian Maslow is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Sendai Shirayuri Women's College in Japan. He is the coeditor (with Ra Mason and Paul O'Shea) of Risk State: Japan's Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty. Christian Wirth is Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Griffith University Asia Institute. He is the author of Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics: Securing the Seas, Securing the State.