“Ritsumeikan Annual Review of International Studies” (RARIS ) is English journal of the International Studies Association of Ritsumeikan University. This journal has been published annually since 2002.

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Vol.17(2018)

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Takuo IWATA Political impact of decentralization in Africa 1
Yuko IGARASHI A Report on the Implementation of Password Speaking and Writing Tests in an English as an Academic Purpose Program 27
Robert Ó’MÓCHAIN Sexual Harassment as a Global Society Issue 49
PHAM Thi Phuong Thao Impacts of public debt on economic growth in six ASEAN countries 63

Vol.16 (2017)

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Yuko IGARASHI What language planning and policy are implemented in Japan? – An analysis of language planning and policy through university students’ perceptions toward English – 1
Takuo IWATA Rethinking the concept of power in African politics . a boundary producer. 19
Hideaki OHTA Why the monetary easing under 'Abenomics' has been ineffective in recovery of the Japanese economy? : Integration of the markets between the US and Japan 37
Robert Ó’MÓCHAIN Individual Level Analysis in International Studies:
The Casement and Wygal Diaries		 67

Vol.15 (2016)

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Takuo IWATA Borders and Regional Security in Local Governments’Cooperation in West Africa:
Case Studies in Burkina Faso		 1
Hideaki OHTA Evaluation of the Effects of Capital Inflows on the Real Economy and Monetary/ Financial Sector in Indonesia: Lessons from the Post-IMF Policy Reform on Capital Account Management and Controls 27
Robert Ó’MÓCHAIN International conflict and co-operation: Identity in the work of Lebow 63
Riza Noer ARFANI & Poppy S. WINANTI Towards an Integrated Aid for Trade and Trade Facilitation Framework: Logistics Management Reform in Indonesia 77

Vol.14 (2015)

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Sajit Chandra DEBNATH The potential of zakat scheme as an alternative of microcredit to alleviate poverty in Bangladesh 1
Wolf HASSDORF “The Real Elephant in the Room”: Currency Manipulation, the U.S. Auto Industry and the TPP 13
Takuo IWATA Social media practices during the political change in Sub-Saharan Africa 47
Hideaki OHTA The Effects of International Capital Flows on Domestic Savings, Investment and Growth: Facts on 'F-H Puzzle' in OECD and Emerging Economies 73
Robert Ó’MÓCHAIN Sexual violence in conflict:
Forgotten victims in secondary source literature		 103

Vol.13 (2014）

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Surendra BHANDARI The Ancient and Modern Thinking about Justice: An Appraisal of the Positive Paradigm and the Influence of International Law 1
Wolf HASSDORF From “Lender of Last Resort” to “Moral Hazard”: Central Bank Responses to International Banking Crises in Historical Perspective 43
Blake Elaine HAYES The unbearable lightness of collectivity: complicity, voice and exit 81
Robert Ó’MÓCHAIN Surveying Prejudice: Reflections on a Problematic Research Project 105
Kazuyo YAMANE The Major Roles of Grassroots Peace Research in Creating Peace and Reconciliation 117
Mu REN China’s Non-intervention Policy Meets International Military Intervention in the Post-Cold War Era:
Focusing on Cases of Illegal Intervention		 127

Vol.12 (2013)

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Surendra BHANDARI Global Constitutionalism and the Constitutionalization of International Relations: A Reflection of Asian Approaches to International Law 1
Ian GIBSON “Yield To Peace”: Postwar Peace Action in Japan 55
Takuo IWATA Japan’s Soft Power in Africa 103
Hideaki OHTA Impact of Increasing Capital Flows on the Real Economy and Financial Markets in Japan: Ineffectiveness of Monetary Policy Instruments 115

Vol.11 (2012)

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Surendra BHANDARI Constitution Making and the Failure of Constituent Assembly: The Case of Nepal 1
Ian GIBSON Peace Problems in Pre-War Japan 41
Masahiko FUKUSHIMA What is “Global Law” ?: Studies on the Concept of “Global Law” from the Sociological Perspectives 85
Meidi KOSANDI Parallel Evolution of Practice and Research on ASEAN Economic Integration: From Paradigm Contestation to Eclectic Theorization 101
Wolf HASSDORF The Nexus of Economics and Security in East Asia or: Should We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love China? 135

Vol.10 (2011)

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Seiji IKKATAI,
Katsuhiko HORI,and
Ikuma KURITA		 The Impact of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme:
Interviews with European Institutions and Four Business Organizations in Finland 		1
Thi Minh Hieu VUONG
and Kenji YOKOYAMA		 Is Vietnam attractive to Japanese FDI comparing to Thailand and China? An attribute-based and holistic analysis 19
Sajit Chandra DEBNATH Contemporary Knowledge-based Economies and East Asia 47
Surendra BHANDARI
and Jay KLAPHAKE		 U.S. Trade Policy and The Doha Round Negotiations 71
Ian GIBSON Nationalistic Tendencies and Tensions within the Japanese Educational System 95
Wolf HASSDORF Much Ado about Nothing? Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation and East Asian Exchange Rate Cooperation 121

Vol.9 (2010)

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Andrew LINKLATER The English School Conception of International Society: Reflections on Western and non-Western Perspectives 1
Hidemi SUGANAMI The English School in a Nutshell 15
Josuke IKEDA The Post-Western Turn in International Theory and the English School 29
Ian GIBSON Engaging Peace: SCI Peace Education within Japanese Higher Education 45
Jay KLAPHAKE and Hironori SASADA You Can’t Always Get What You Want:
A Compaｒison of Biofuel Policy in the United States and Japan		 81
Ryohei NAKAGAWA Japan-U.S. Trade and Rethinking the Point of No Return toward the Pearl Harbor 101
Albie SHARPE Emerging Panacea or Brand New Headache? The Rhetoric of Social Capital in Indigenous Health Policy Formation 125
Mark A. SELZER Curriculum Design for English-Medium Subject Matter Instruction in Japanese Higher Education 153
Gul CEYLAN TOK Capital, Identity and the State: An Analysis of State- Business Relations in Turkey 167
Toyokazu ISHIHARA Eretz Ball: Qualitative Change of Professional Sport Watching in Israel Baseball League 187
Ulyana SHIPITKO Rediscovering Russia in Northeast Asia 205

Vol.8 (2009)

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Heikki PATOMAKI The Tobin Tax and Global Civil Society Organisations: The Aftermath of the 2008-9 Financial Crisis 1
Sajit Chandra DEBNATH &
Kenji YOKOYAMA		 Developing Competitive Scientific Infrastructure for Knowledge-based Economies in Southeast Asia:
A Comparative Study of Malaysia and Singapore 		19
Ian GIBSON "Constructive Radicalism" and its positioning within Peace Education 47
Mark A. SELZER Legitimacy and the Institutionalization of Coups d' Etat: The Military Role in Thailand's Political System 63
Albie SHARPE The 'Vital Core' of Human Security:
Evaluating Health Security in Japanese Overseas Development Aid in Sri Lanka		 75
Gul CEYLAN TOK The securitization of the headscarf issue in Turkey: ‘ the good and bad daughters’ of the republic 113

Vol.7 (2008)

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Paul R. BRASS False Dichotomies:Truth, Reason, and Morality in Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Contemporary Social Sciences 1
Nik HYNEK Japan's Human Security: A Conceptual and Institutional Analysis 35
E T OTTMAN A question of historiography: the “new historians”of Israel 55
Ian GIBSON Transforming Inequitable Conditions of Globality: Belief Systems, Consciousness and Culture 69
Michael SUTTON Persuading Powers: Australia's Multilateral Trade Policy (1983-1995) 85

Vol.6 (2007)

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Ian GIBSON Globality's Triune: Citizen-Driven Responses to Poverty,Violence and Inequitable Systems of Capital 1
Noah McCORMACK Civilising the urban other: poverty as a national problem 21
Michael SUTTON The Future of Asia Pacific Regionalism and APEC: Towards 2030 and Beyond 45
Patrick STREFFORD Japanese ODA diplomacy towards Myanmar: A Test for the ODA Charter 65
Chizuko SATO Liberal Opposition to Forced Removals and Non-racialism in South Africa 79

Vol.5 (2006)

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jinwook CHOI The North Korean Domestic Situation and Its Impact on the Nuclear Crisis 1
Giorgio SHANI Empire,Liberalism and the Rule of Colonial Difference:Colonial Governmentality in South Asia 19
Patrick STREFFORD The Response of International Donors to Myanmar's Escalating Health Crisis 37
Michael SUTTON Asia Pacific Regionalism in the 1990s:Cooperation,Consensus and Conflict 59
Deborah MANTLE Defending the Dugong:Redefining‘Security’in Okinawa and Japan 85
Ian Rbert GIBSON Resource Wars:Oil Movement in Syria During the Iran-Iraq War 107

Vol.4 (2005)

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Ian GIBSON The War System, the Citizen and Nonviolent Activism 1
K.V. KESAVAN India and Community Building in Asia: From Idealism to Realism 9
Jeong Hun OH The Impacts of IT Industry on the Economy: The Income and Substitution Effects Analysis Using VIO Model 23
E T OTTMAN Women's Politics of Belonging - Civil and Military Margins in Diasporic, Israeli and Palestinian Society 37
Makoto SATO Japanese Aid Diplomacy in Africa: An Historical Analysis 67
Giorgio SHANI Indigenous Modernities: Nationalism and Communalism in Colonical India 87
Michael SUTTON Japanese Trade Policy and 'Economic Partnership Agreements': A New Conventional Wisdom 113

Vol.3 (2004)

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Anthony MCGREW Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice 1
Makoto SATO From Foreign Workers to Minority Residents: Diversification of International Migration in Japan 19
Giorgio SHANI Re-branding India? Globalization, Hindutva and the 2004 Elections 35
Poom Kim SHEE The Political Economy of Mahathir's China Policy: Economic Cooperation, Political and Strategic Ambivalence 59
Mark A. SELZER International Market Principles and Private University Reform in Japan 81
Yasuo TAKAO Local Government as a Social Construction Agent in Transnational Relations: Some Reflections Based on Three Cases in Japan 93
Masahiro OIKAWA "Terror of Failure" and "Guilt for Success": The American Dream in the Great Depression and Arthur Miller'sThe Man Who Had All the Luck 117
Maya Higashi WAKANA The Social World of Henry James's The Spoils of Poynton:
Reciprocity, Allegiances, and Human Behavior		 141
Ian GIBSON Human Security Post 9-11 Gender Perspectives and Security Exclusion 157
E T OTTMAN Fractured Fences -- On Post-Zionism and Diversity 177

Vol.2 (2003)

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Tsunehiko KATO Recent Diasporic Novels in the UK:
A Japanese Perspective		 1
Reinhart KÖSSLER The Modern Nation State and Regimes of Violence: Reflections on the Current Situation 15
Giorgio SHANI ‘The Liberal Project’: Globalization, Modernity and Identity 37
Ian GIBSON The Race to the Bottom-Globalization or Brand Imperialism? 59
Yasuo TAKAO Transnational Coalitions in Northeast Asia: Search for a New Pathway of Japanese Local Government 75
Mark A. SELZER Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy Flaws: A Case Study of the Development of the 1980 Iran Hostage Rescue Mission 105
K. V. KESAVAN Economic Liberalization in India and Japan’s Wavering Response 129

Vol.1(2002)

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Hiroshi OKUDA from the Dean of the Faculty i
Kunihiko TATSUZAWA The Concept of International Pablic Services in itnternational Law 1
Giorgio SHANI 'A Revolt against the West': Politicized Religion and the International Order - A Comparison of the Islamic Umma and the Sikh Qaum 15
Poon Kim Shee The Political Economy of China-Myanmar Relations: Strategic and Economic Dimensions 33
Jiang Ye Will China be a "Threat" to Its Nerghbors and the World in the Twenty First Century? 55
Toshiko HIMEOKA Work and Gender in the 19th and 20th Centuries - Japan and Germany in a Comparative Perspective 69
Hector Correa A Game Theoretic Analysis of the Relationship between Type of Government and Propensity to Peace and War 87
Masahiro OIKAWA All My Sons as Precursor in Arthur Miller's Dramatic World 99
Tsunehiko KATO Caryl Phillps as a Black British Writer: the Experience of Caribbean Immigrants After World War 2 121