Japan and the Kyoto Protocol: reconstructing ‘proactive’ identity through environmental multilateralism

Cooperation and Environmental Responsibility as Positive Factors for Entrepreneurial Resilience

“…The keyword "Sustainability" is, in this case, the most powerful keyword (with a total link of 25 and 20 co-occurrences) that recalls the other cluster keywords. This means that, over the last 20 years, Sustainability has become a core theme, considering the relatively recent formation of the Kyoto Protocol and other green initiatives that have called attention to the pollution emergency and the need for sustainable development [86][87][88][89]. This need does not find appreciation in countries that have so far stressed the urgency of a solid economy without considering the environmental cost [90,91]; however, in countries trying to integrate environmental approaches within economic and social planning [91][92][93][94][95], the sustainable approach is not seen as antithetical to economic and social development.…”

Reconstructing hierarchy as the key international relations concept and its implications for the study of Japanese national identity

“…Epistemologically, these studies have focused on specific discursive regimes and have deployed various forms of narrative/discursive analyses (cf. Ringmar, 1996; Campbell, 1998; Waever, 2002; Rumelili, 2004; Hansen, 2006; Suzuki, 2009, 2015; Bukh, 2010; Kolmaš, 2014, 2017; Hagström and Gustaffson, 2015; Tamaki, 2015). They start with the premise that the contours of our world (borders/states/civilizations/identities) are produced through the discursive practices by which we try to understand them.…”