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Abstract: The radical anti-Japan sentiment in the Chinese cyberspace becomes a landmark of "Internet nationalism" in China. It leads to a boomerang effect on China?s foreign policy making. However, such effect is still limited.

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Abstract: My paper will analyze the ways that Japan has approached nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation in recent years. More specifically, in addition to the diverse approaches that have been taken by Tokyo and Japanese anti-nuclear weapons organizations, my paper will examine the extent to which U.S. policies influence the disarmament and nonproliferation initiatives of the Japanese government in the international arena. Preliminary research suggests that Tokyo is placing more emphasis on nonproliferation than on nuclear disarmament, creating two major reasons for concern. First, the government of Japan, despite its continuing public campaign to promote nuclear disarmament while seeking the assistance of civil society organizations, would be especially sensitive to the policy concerns of Washington, which, as many critics argue, has developed hegemonic global interests. Second, Tokyo would be alienating itself from Japanese anti-nuclear weapons organizations that in recent years have increased their international efforts to promote nuclear disarmament.

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Abstract: While many view globalization as a process fundamentally reshaping the way individuals, communities, and nation-states interact, the emergent patterns of social and political order are unclear and often contradictory. Between the neo-Marxist critics

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Abstract: How does innovation affect war outcomes? Kenneth Waltz has noted that successful methods of warfare are soon widely imitated on the international stage, while William McNeill has demonstrated that innovation leads quickly evaporate. Scholars such as Barr

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Abstract: Why do some international campaigns to pressure errant states to comply with international norms fail? Ultimately, the success of these campaigns depends upon the vulnerability of the target state to external pressure. Drawing from the literature on compliance, norms and social movements, I isolate three domestic factors that help to explain why some transnational campaigns succeed while others fail: the role of domestic interest groups, the domestic resonance of the international norm, and the political opportunity structure in the target state. This paper seeks to explain the limited effects of the transnational anti-whaling network in its efforts to pressure Japan to abide by the international norm against whaling. In spite of tremendous international pressure and the threat of U.S. sanctions, Japan has remained defiant in its commitment to overturn a global moratorium on commercial whaling introduced by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1986. Japan has also engaged in a highly controversial program of whaling for scientific research in spite of the ongoing moratorium. I argue that domestic whaling interests do not provide an adequate explanation for Japan’s resistance to external pressure. Instead, the lack of resonance of the international anti-whaling norm and the limited domestic channels for the amplification of international pressure were the critical factors obstructing the influence of the anti-whaling network. Indeed, Japan’s defiant response to the anti-whaling campaign has been motivated more by the manner in which this campaign has been waged rather than the tangible benefits of whaling.