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近些年来，自从中国颁布了新能源政策后，日本就努力确保其稀土资源能满足自身的经济需求，在外交政策中，日本也努力承担了新古典写实手法国家的清晰典范。通过基甸罗斯的外交政策模型分析，本文认为在这种情况下，日本的稀土外交政策（因变量）是全身性的压力，即受中国的稀土出口配额和稀土出货程序限制（自变量之间的相互作用的结果），同时日本决策者认知的中介变项也对该国的国家经济安全和权力具有一定的风险。实证结果支持了一个民族国家通过在全球事务中扩大其影响力的外交政策，就是通过把改变外部环境作为一种手段，来应对不确定性的无政府的国际秩序的新古典现实主义概念。

简介

在大多数情况下，现代日本学者忽视了国家的稀土（RE）外交是其外交政策的重要组成部分。

Japans recent efforts to secure rare earth resources for its own economic needs following Chinas RE policy in recent years, bears a lucid exemplar of the countrys neoclassical realist approach in its resources foreign policy. Following Gideon Rose’s model of foreign policy analysis, this paper argues that in this case, Japan’s RE foreign policy (dependent variable) is the outcome of the interaction between systemic pressures, namely, China’s RE export quota and procedural restrictions of RE shipments (independent variables) and the intervening variables of Japanese policymakers’ perceptions of the risks towards the country’s national economic security and power. The empirical findings support the neoclassical realist’s notion that a nation-state’s foreign policy is adopted to extend its influence in global affairs and change the external environment as means to counter uncertainties in an anarchic international order.

Introduction

Contemporary scholars of Japan have for the most part, overlooked the country’s rare earth (RE) diplomacy as an important component of its foreign policy. Despite Tokyo’s blatant search for these precious resources worldwide in recent years, inadequate studies and analyses have been devoted to the Japanese RE foreign policy, both in empirical and in theoretical terms. Aimed to address such scholarly vacuum as well as to spur further research in this field, this paper seeks to explore and comprehend Japan’s overall RE foreign policy through amalgamation of both empirical and theoretical grounds.

In the first section, we seek to briefly explain the neoclassical realist perspective and argument for the formulation of a state’s foreign policy. In particular, the research utilizes Gideon Rose’s causal logic model to examine the indirect relationship between the independent variables of systemic pressures (external factors), the intervening variables of internal factors (domestic reasons) and the dependent variables, that is, the foreign policy of an individual state. In the subsequent part, this paper argues that China’s RE export quota and procedural restrictions of RE shipments to Japan affect the Japanese government’s perceived risks to the country’s economic security and power. This, in turn, induces Tokyo to pursue an “expansionist” RE foreign policy through bilate本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。