TY - BOOK AU - BARBER B Bryan TI - Far yet so near: normativity in Japan's diplomacy with the central Asian republics PY - 2018/// KW - JAPAN KW - FOREIGN POLICY KW - ASIAN N2 - This study analyzes significant Japanese foreign policy measures with the central Asian republics since independence and through examination of speech acts by the political elites, practices on the ground and within the institutional framework of the central Asia plus Japan dialogue draws out the normativity evident in Tokyo's central Asian policy UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/00927678.2017.1412677 ER -