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Globalization, Democratization and Asian Leadership: Power Sharing, Foreign Policy and Society in the Philippines and Japan

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The book refines democratic theory. In representative democracies, the quality of power-sharing is the best predictor of success or failure in foreign policy. This is true of government practitioners, civil society organizations, and individuals.
The foreign policies of presidents, prime ministers and their foreign secretaries can be influenced by the preferences of domestic and international nongovernmental actors, as well as those of other governments. Representative democracy, media power, citizen activism and the globalization of politics and telecommunications, for example, have accelerated changes in the sharing of power. This book focuses on Philippines and Japan where, willingly and unwillingly, foreign policy executives share power with individuals and groups inside and outside of government bureaucracies and their societies.
Cases selected for this book include regional intergovernmental cooperation, military relations and foreign aid -- official development assistance.