Japan's foreign policy since 1945 / Kevin Cooney.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Cooney, Kevin J., author.

Series:

• Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Japan--Foreign relations--1945-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 297 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

• Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., c2007.
• Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Provides a detailed assessment of Japan's foreign policy since 1945, including policy options and choices that Japan faces in the twenty-first century. Using information based on interviews with policymakers in Japan, this text provides an insight into Japan's foreign policy options and analyzes the nation's role in international affairs.

Contents:

• Introduction: the story of Japan after World War II
• The catalyst for change
• The problem and the questions
• The literature
• Elite Interviews
• The variables
• Objectives and expected significance of the book
• Ouline of the book
• The legacy of the occupation: an abnormal foreign policy
• Historical background
• Japanese foreign and security policy 1952-1990
• The Gulf War requires change
• The Gulf War and Japanese foreign policy
• The peace keeping operations law (PKO)
• Towards a security council seat and beyond
• Theorectically speaking: realism and alternative security
• Japanese limitations
• Alternative security
• The theoretical foundations of foreign policy restructing
• Alternative views of Japanese security
• Foreign-policy restructuring in Japan
• A model of foreign-policy restructuring
• Talking to the policy makers themselves
• What are the foreign-policy makers thinking
• Planning for Japan's future security
• Japan's national security
• Abandonment
• Japan's options
• The myth of Gaiatsu: how Japan views its place in the world
• Adjusting to the post-cold war world
• Gaiatsu
• The myth of Gaiatsu
• What is Japan doing?
• Triangulating politics: America, China, and Japan
• The China question
• The question of North Korea
• Japanese policy: action and reaction
• Where is Japan going?
• The wide view of Japanese security
• Future sources of foreign policy: the diet
• Constitutional reform: potential for constitutional revision
• The SDF in Japanese foreign policy
• World leadership
• Japan's limitations
• Japanese hegemony?
• Japan's future
• Suggestions for foreign policy normalization
• Implications for Hermann's model: what have we learned?.

Notes:

• "An East gate book."
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-286) and index.
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

• 9786610912704
• 9781317466901
• 131746690X
• 9781315703121
• 1315703122
• 9781280912702
• 1280912707
• 9780765621597
• 0765621592

OCLC:

527355673