Digitized Statecraft in Multilateral Treaty Participation

Praise for 'Digitized Statecraft in Multilateral Treaty Participation: Global Quasi-Legislative Behavior of 193 Sovereign States'.- Acknowledgements.- Preface.- Author Bios.- Tables and Figures.- Part I: Calculus of Statecraft.- Chapter 1. Aphorism by Pundits: Machiavelli, Bodin and Hobbes.- Chapter 2. The Advent of Globalization and Multilateral Treaties: Data-Driven Empirical Modelling.- Part II: One Hundred Ninety-Three Calculi of Statecraft.- Chapter 3. The Development of Multilateral Treaty Participation.- Chapter 4. Three Dimensions of Global Legislative Politics: Ten Regional Groups and Six Policy Domains.- Chapter 5. Eight Types of Globalizing Semi-Sovereign States.- Part III: Sinic Calculi of Statecraft.- Chapter 6. Adaptation to Multilateral Treaties.- Chapter 7. Changing Priorities of Six Policy Domains.- Chapter 8. Multilateral Treaty Participation Triggers Upward Leap in Sinic Asia.- Conclusion: The Future of Globalizing Semi-Sovereign States: Global Legislative Politics through Multilateral Treaties.- Reference. 

Takashi Inoguchi is an award-winning prolific writer and educator on the topics of Japanese politics and foreign policy, East Asian international relations and Asian comparative politics. Dr. Inoguchi celebrates a career that has allowed him to impact his industry on the topics of quality of life in Asia, evidence-based typology of Asian society and transnationalism as manifested in the form of multilateral treaties through his publication of more than 150 books (of which 110 are in Japanese and 40 are in English). His recent authored and co-authored publications include "Exit, Voice and Loyalty in Asia: Individual Choice under 32 Asian Societal Umbrellas," "Trust with Asian Characteristics: Interpersonal and Institutional," "The Development of Global Legislative Politics: Rousseau and Locke Writ Global" and contributed an essay to "The Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory, Vol. 4." Currently, Dr. Inoguchi finds success as the editor-in-chief of the Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, as the editor of The SAGE Handbook of Asian Foreign Policy, 2 vols., and as an eminent scholar-professor of political science at the Institute of Asian Cultures at J. F. Oberlin University in Tokyo, Japan. He is regarded within his industry for his previous work as a professor for the University of Tokyo, Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University (assistant secretary general of the UN), chancellor and president of University Niigata Prefecture, professor of Chuo University, and associate professor at Sophia University. As an academic editor, he has been the founding editor of the Japanese Journal of Political Science, the International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and the Asian Journal of Comparative Politics. As an academic editor of book series, he has been one of the co-editors along with G. John Ikenberry for "Asia Today" and the editor of "Trust: Interdisciplinary Perspectives."