Japan and the Gulf States: Friendship Prospects Under the FOIP Initiative

Japan’s strategy of “Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy—FOIP” stands as a keystone approach in its relationship with the international community and Gulf countries, in particular, in the twenty-first century. The past two decades have shown growing and extensive friendly ties between the Arab Gulf states and Japan. Those ties have been mainly economic which includes significant bilateral trade. More recently, there are emerging signs of security cooperation, cultural exchange, and educational cooperation. In this chapter, I attempt to reveal the idea of FOIP, exploring the future possibilities of cooperation, partnership, and the alliance between Japan and the Arab world.

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Published in: Gulf Studies
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
See article on publisher's website: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7796-1_33