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Japan-India Relations After The Cold War: The Evolution And Its Cause

Posted on:2010-09-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L GuoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360275952272Subject:World History
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Japan and India are great nations in Asian,both of them have the irreplaceable function in East and South Asia,the Japan-India bilateral relationship is closely linked with the security of China and even the Asian.During the Cold War,the US and Soviet antagonized with each other intensely,in the diplomacy,Japan followed the US,while India adopted a non-aligned foreign policy and maintained friendly relationship with the Soviet Union.Because of the different benefit,Japan-India relationship was relatively cool in that period.After the Cold War,the international situation had changed hugely,Japan and India adjusted their foreign policy correspondingly.Japan accelerated the transition from economic giant to the political power,while India gave priority to economic diplomacy and gave consideration to the foreign policy between east and west at the same time.The two countries found the same benefits through the diplomatic strategies of each other,and then they improved the relationship of each other positively and become the close partner relationship gradually.However,the development of bilateral relationship between Japan and India was not favoring but changeable ceaselessly.In May of 1998,India was strongly blamed and imposed economic sanctions by Japan because of the nuclear test which was carded out by India,the relationship between the two countries was nearly dropped to the historical bottom.Considering of the strategic benefit,both countries made great effort to restore bilateral relationships.In August,2000,the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to India greatly promoted the restoration of relationship between the two countries and opened up a new prospect of development.According to this,in this article,we discussed the evolution process of Japan-India relationship from the historical perspective during every period,and also analyzed the cause of Japan-India relationships' evolution using the knowledge of many discipline, such as Geography Politics,International Relations science and so on,it aimed to show the relationship development between Japan and India after the Cold War clearly and objectively.At last,according to these characteristics of the evolution process,I gave my own viewpoint.This thesis includes the following four parts:The first part:Introduction.In this part,we mainly elaborate the reason and significance of this thesis,and on basis of the existing research results to summary the research ideas.The second part:The evolution of Japan-India relationship after the Cold War.we reviewed the performance and characteristics of the Japan-india relationship during the Cold War.Base on this,we analyzed the internal and external reasons:the different foreign policy in the two countries and the international environment in Cold War. Because of this,the relationship between Japan and India was cool in that period.And according to the history events which had a great impact on the two countries,we discussed the evolution of Japan-India.relationship mainly from a historical perspective and highlighted the process of the development and evolution of the two countries' bilateral relationship.Then,we investigated the intercourse of politics,economy, military affairs between the two countries during every period.The third part:Lots of factors which impacted on Japan-India relationship after the Cold War.In this chapter we profoundly analyzed many factors such as the Japan-India own factor,the American factor,Chinese factor,Russian factor which impacted on the evolution of Japan-India relationship after the Cold War,and we tried our best to analysis objectively and reliably.The fourth part:We discussed the influence of the evolution of Japan-India relationship on China after the Cold War from political,economic and security aspects.As the strengthening of the two countries' interactive cooperation in political, economical and military aspects in recent years,China,as the neighbor of Japan and India,should pay close attention to them and make the necessary response.
Keywords/Search Tags:Japan-India relations, evolution, cause, influence
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