Japan as a "global pacifist state" : its changing pacifism and security identity / Daisuke Akimoto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akimoto, Daisuke, 1980-

Series:

Worlds of East Asia ; v. 21.

Mondes de l'Extrême-Orient/Worlds of East Asia/Welten Ostasiens ; Vol./Band 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pacifism--Japan.

Pacifism.

Peace-building--Japan.

Peace-building.

Japan--Foreign relations.

Japan.

International relations.

National security--Japan.

National security.

Physical Description:

281 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, 2013.

Summary:

This book examines Japan's changing pacifism and its implications for Japan's security identity from 1945 to the present. To examine the shift in Japanese pacifism, this research employs the concept of 'negative pacifism' (Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution) and 'positive pacifism' (the Preamble of the Constitution) as an analytical framework. To analyse multiple factors which facilitated the shift in Japan's pacifism, this study applies 'analytical eclecticism' and integrates the analytical framework (negative-positive pacifism) with orthodox international relations theories and approaches. In an application of analytical eclecticism, the author proposes four theoretical models of Japan's security identity: (a) 'pacifist state' (classical liberalism/negative pacifism); (b) 'UN peacekeeper' (neo-liberalism/positive pacifism); (c) 'normal state' (classical realism/domestic pressure); and (d) 'US ally' (neo-realism/external-structural pressure). In addition to the four basic models above, this book attempts to reveal Japan's 'core security identity' as a 'global pacifist state'. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : pacifism and security identity of Japan

Japan as a pacifist state : security policy 1945-1990

Japan as a UN peace-keeper in Cambodia

Japan as a UN peace-builder in East Timor

Japan as a US ally in response to the war on terror

Japan as a global pacifist state : the future of the peace constitution and Japan's core security identity

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-276) and index.

ISBN:

3034313802

9783034313803

OCLC:

861554725

Publisher Number:

99962438170