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Line of Advantage provides a groundbreaking and comprehensive account of the new grand strategy that emerged in Japan under Abe Shinz¿. Michael J. Green draws on on two decades of access to Abe and other Japanese political, military, and business leaders, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of Japan¿s approach.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration of Japanese Words and Names
Introduction
1. The Historic Roots of Modern Japanese Grand Strategy
2. China
3. The United States
4. The Indo-Pacific
5. Korea
6. Internal Balancing
Conclusion: The End of the Yoshida Doctrine
Notes
Index
About the author
Michael J. Green is director of Asian studies and chair in modern and contemporary Japanese politics and foreign policy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University as well as senior vice president for Asia and Japan chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has served at senior levels of the National Security Council, and his books include By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia-Pacific Since 1783 (Columbia, 2017).
Summary
Line of Advantage provides a groundbreaking and comprehensive account of the new grand strategy that emerged in Japan under Abe Shinzo. Michael J. Green draws on on two decades of access to Abe and other Japanese political, military, and business leaders, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of Japan’s approach.
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In this extremely timely book, Michael J. Green sheds light on Japan’s emergence as a leader in its strategy on China, as well as in Abe’s politics and diplomacy. Green, a highly experienced scholar-practitioner, demonstrates formidable knowledge and profound insight on Japan’s history, geopolitics, and statecraft, peppering the text with many personal and intimate conversations with top U.S. and Japanese decision makers. He envisions the U.S.-Japan alliance as the twenty-first-century equivalent of the Anglo-American alliance, wearing the mantle of the Pacific mission and maritime strategy of John MacMurray and George Kennan.
