Japan's quest for a permanent Security Council seat : a matter of pride or justice? / [Book] :
Reinhard Drifte.
- New York : New York : St. Martin's Press, St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- xiii, 269 p. ; 23 cm.
- St. Antony's series .
"In association with St. Antony's College, Oxford."
Japan has consistently been pursuing the goal of a permanent UN Security Council seat for 30 years. This book investigates the motives for this ambition, and how it has been pursued domestically and internationally. It is therefore a study of the interior workings of the Japanese Foreign Ministry as well as of the country's underdeveloped multilateral diplomacy.