Summary For the past sixty years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan’s security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military…
Country or Region: Japan
Abstract Which Japanese leader will emerge to help build a consensus among the country’s strategic choices: constructing a national identity as a great or middle…
Abstract This article argues that the dual identities of political rivals and regional leaders have been of critical importance in determining China and Japan’s regional…
Abstract Regular convening of East Asian summits and rising concerns about the American dollar have heightened interest in Asian cooperation. Japan will necessarily play a…
Summary While appearing to be more nationalistic and less reluctant to engage international security challenges, Japan continues to pursue a comprehensive strategy integrating its security…
Abstract The current process of Japanese domestic change has the potential to produce a Japan that will be more supportive of U.S. interests. In Japan,…
Summary Nonviolent state behavior in Japan, this book argues, results from the distinctive breadth with which the Japanese define security policy, making it inseparable from…
Abstract Japan’s status as a nonnuclear weapons state remains of ongoing interest to policy analysts and scholars of international relations. For some, Japanese nuclearization is…
Abstract Japan is undergoing profound changes that are empowering its political leadership at the expense of its bureaucracy. But rather than bringing about a clean…
Continue reading Heginbotham, Eric, Ratner, Ely. and Samuels, Richard J
Summary How have shifts in both the international environment and domestic politics affected the trajectory of Japanese foreign policy? Does it still…
Continue reading Berger, T. U., M. Mochizuki, J. Tsuchiyama, and N. K. Fōramu
Summary Given that the world has moved well beyond the period of Western colonialism, and clearly into a durable period in which non-Western cultures…
Abstract Recent studies have increasingly argued that the Chinese leadership uses Japan’s imperialistic past as a tool for domestic and political bargaining. However, this argument…
Summary Worldviews of Aspiring Powers provides a serious study of the domestic foreign policy debates in five world powers who have gained more influence as the…
Summary The Long Shadow is the first comprehensive, systematic examination of the roles and implications of nuclear weapons in the dramatically different post–Cold War security…
Summary A “second nuclear age” has begun in the post-Cold War world. Created by the expansion of nuclear arsenals and new proliferation in Asia, it…
