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other realist schools which centered their foreign policy cases based on the outcomes of external environment while reducing the impacts of these internal factor-born unit-level variables towards an individual state’s behavior at the international stage.

 

In Japan’s case, the country’s current RE foreign policy is the best illustration of Rose’s model that comprehensively traces states’ diplomatic conducts within the context of the unidirectional relationship between systemic pressures from China’s RE export monopoly and the domestic factors in the Japanese state itself. As for the independent variables, the two systemic pressures that derived from the global environment are identified, namely, China’s reduction of RE export quota in the 2000s in general and Beijing’s procedural restrictions of RE shipments bound for Japan after the Senkaku Islands’ spat in September 2010. Through their effects towards the intervening variables, the Japanese government’s perceptions on the impending national economic security and power risks, a direct causal relationship is firmly established in which the dependent variable, that is, Tokyo’s “expansionist” RE foreign policy, is the eventual outcome. The figure below briefly illustrates the overall Rose’s analytical model in dissecting the current Japan’s RE foreign policy.

 

Intervening Variables (Internal)

 

Internal Factors

 

(Japanese government’s perceptions on national economic power and security risks)

 

Dependent Variable

 

Foreign Policy (Japan’s “expansionist” RE foreign policy through bilateral cooperation frameworks to secure RE resources)

 

Independent Variables (External)

 

Systemic Pressures (China’s reduction of RE export quota and procedural restrictions of RE shipments to Japan)

 

Figure 1. Rose’s Model of Analysis for Japan’s RE Foreign Policy

 

External Environment-Internal Factor Nexus

 

Independent Variables of Systemic (External) Pressures: China’s Reduction of RE Export Quota and Procedural Restrictions of RE Shipments to Japan

 

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