Japan’s Quest for a Permanent Security Council Seat: A Matter of Pride or Justice?

282 Pages·2000·27.994 MB·English

by  Reinhard Drifte (auth.)

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Japan's Quest for a
I>ermanent Security
<=ouncil Seat
A Matter of Pride or justice?
Reinhard Drifte
Professor o( Japanese Polities
University o( Newcastle upon Tyne
in association with
Palgrave Macmillan
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ISBN 978-1-349-62665-6 ISBN 978-1-137-07467-6 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-07467-6
Libary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Drifte, Reinhard.
Japan's quest for a permanent security council seat : a matter of
pride or justice? I Reinhard Drifte.
p. em. - (St. Antony's series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. United Nations. Security Council-Membership. 2. United
Nations-Japan. 3. Japan-Foreign relations-1989- I. Title.
II. Series.
JZ5006.7.D75 1999
327.52'009'045-dc21 99-40402
CIP
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Contents
List o( Tables ix
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List o( Abbreviations xii
Introduetion 1
1 The Seeurity Couneil Issue in Japan's
UN Poliey, 1956-89 10
Introduetion 10
]oining the UN 11
UN poliey during the initial years 16
Early moves towards the Security Couneil bid 18
Keeping UN Charter revisionism alive 35
'Quasi' permanent Seeurity Couneil membership
as a stepping stone? 46
Conclusions 50
2 Japan's Multilateral Reeord and the
Rationale for the Bid 52
Introduction 52
]apan's multilateral diplomaey in the 1990s 53
The Gulf War, 1991 65
Japan's reeord as a non-permanent member
on the Security Couneil 67
PKO participation and the bid 74
Permanent membership: a matter of prestige? 95
Permanent membership: a matter of financial power? 99
Permanent membership: a matter of merit and readiness? 104
Conclusions 110
3 Gathering Support at the Domestic ami
International Levels 112
Introduetion 112
The end of the East-West eonfrontation and
the Security Couneil 113
Competitive pressures from Germany 118
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viii Contents
A low profile policy for domestic consumption versus
externallobbyism 120
The outcome: application by stealth and prevarication 124
Winning support among member states 13S
The pros and cons of US endorsement 137
Support from the UK, France and Russia 141
Common EU position defeated by Italy 144
Buying Third World backing? 14S
Conclusions IS3
4 ]apan's Participation in the Working Group
on Security Council Reform ISS
Introduction ISS
Historical background of security council
reform attempts ISS
Security Council reform in the 1990s 161
Equitable representation 163
Financial power as qualification 164
Scope of Security Council enlargement 168
Silence on the veto right 174
Improving working practices of the Security Council 179
Towards permanent stalemate instead of
permanent membership? 181
Conclusions 18S
Conclusion 187
Notes 198
Bibliography 246
Index 261
List of Tables
2.1 PKO and normal UN budget assessment ratio 76
2.2 Reasons for opposing permanent Security Council
membership 83
2.3 Traops and other personnel contributions to PKO 91
2.4 Scale of UN budget assessment 100
2.5 Selective list of voluntary contributions fram
Japan to UN agencies 101
2.6 Reasons for agreeing with the bid for permanent
Security Council membership 104
2.7 Should Japan become a permanent
Security Council member? 106
3.1 ODA to Africa 148
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Preface
Thanks has to go first to all those who contributed to my buyout
from teaching and administration in the Department of Politics of the
University of Newcastle and to my research funding during the course
of this book project from April 1997 to December 1998. The buyout
for April 1997-March 1998 was financed by the Konishi Foundation
(Tokyo) and thereafter, two thirds were provided by Uren co Ltd.
(Marlow, Bucks.) and the other third by a donation through the Japan
Foundation from a group of friends in Japan. I am therefore particu
larly grateful to Konishi Jineimon, President of Nippon Zoki (Osaka),
Jürgen Paleit, Managing Director of URENCO Ltd. (Marlow), and my
old friends and supporters, Uchikoshi Shimazu (Tokyo) and Tomofuji
Kimio (Kobe), who organized the group of friends in Japan, apart from
financially contributing themselves. Thanks to the Japan Foundation,
I could spend nine fruitful months (May 1997-February 1998) at
Saitama University. The Japan Foundation Endowment Committee in
Britain went out of its way to fund my field research in New York
(April-May 1998).
At Saitama University my host was Professor Yoshida Yasuhiko, a
friend from the time when he was working in the Uni ted Nations
office at Geneva while I was at the Graduate Institute of International
Studies. He was most helpful in letting me use his UN-related library
and documentation and giving me precious advice and guidance
(including proofreading and commenting on the whole draft), apart
from being a generous friend. He was also instrumental in finding a
Japanese publisher and taking care of the Japanese translation of this
book. While in New York I was attached as Visiting Fellow to Columbia
University's East Asian Institute thanks to the support of Robert
Immerman, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute.
I am grateful to the many dlplomats, academics, UN staff and jour
nalists in Tokyo and New York who gave me their precious time for
the many interviews I conducted, and for providing information I
requested. Many active and retired members of the Japanese Ministry
of Foreign Affairs deepened my knowledge of their country's multilat
eral diplomacy. Mr Tsukamoto Takashi of the Diet Library provided me
access to many articles on my subject. I am particularly grateful to Ingo
Winkelmann (Embassy of the Federal Republic in Sarajewo) and Sam
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