Summary Japan’s Security Relations with China since 1989 raises the crucial question of whether Japan’s political leadership which is still preoccupied with finding a new political…
Topic: East Asian Security
Abstract Over the past decade, the US-Japan alliance has been strengthened and subtly but substantively transformed. In response to a range of domestic changes and…
Summary For decades, Japan’s foreign policy has been seen by both internal and external observers as abnormal in relation to its size and level of…
Abstract In recent years, there has been an increasingly vigorous debate by a wide range of participants over the past, present and future of Japanese…
Summary This book assesses the key factors underlying such Australian-Japanese cooperation and those policy challenges that could impede it. Experts offer critical insights into why…
Summary Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a significant change in Japanese security policy, as Japan’s security identity has shifted from…
Summary In Japan Rising, Kenneth B. Pyle explores the remarkable history of Japan’s shifting foreign policy over the last 150 years. He identifies the common…
Summary Normalizing Japan seeks to answer the question of what future direction Japan’s military policies are likely to take, by considering how policy has evolved since…
Abstract Since the end of the Cold War, Japan’s acceptance and institutionalization of a non-combat military role to aid the US has led to its…
Summary In this book, Paul Midford engages claims that since 9/11 Japanese public opinion has turned sharply away from pacifism and toward supporting normalization of…
Abstract Jennifer Lind of Dartmouth College examines the conventional wisdom that domestic factors and strong antimilitarist norms have constrained Japan’s security policy since the country’s…
Abstract The recent domestic constructivist studies characterize Japanese security policy as a serious anomaly to realism and a crucial case vindicating their approach to the…
Summary Since the unexpected end of the Cold War, standard arguments about power politics can no longer be adopted uncritically. This has led to a…
Summary After suffering crushing military defeats in 1945, both Japan and Germany have again achieved positions of economic dominance and political influence. Yet neither seeks…
Summary Chapters on China, Japan, Russia. Contributors ask whether it is more useful to conceive of the world as arrayed in regional, cultural, institutional complexes…
