TY - BOOK AU - Drifte, Reinhard, TI - Japan's quest for a permanent Security Council seat: a matter of pride or justice? SN - 9780312228477 U1 - 327.52 PY - 2000/// CY - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York PB - Palgrave Macmilla KW - United Nations KW - Security Council KW - Membership KW - Japan KW - Foreign relations KW - 1989-- N1 - "In association with St. Antony's College, Oxford."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-260) and index N2 - Japan has consistently been pursuing the goal of a permanent UN Security Council seat for 30 years. This book investigates the motives for this ambition, and how it has been pursued domestically and internationally. It is therefore a study of the interior workings of the Japanese Foreign Ministry as well as of the country's underdeveloped multilateral diplomacy UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol057/99040402.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol056/99040402.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol053/99040402.html ER -