Japan's Alliance Politics and Defence Production

Japan's alliance with the United States is examined with reference to defence production and technology-sharing. The alliance's post-Cold-War relevance is considered. It is argued that there is a danger of significant tensions arising in the relationship from parallel rather than identical national interests. A widening gap between the respective interests forms a potentially fatal flaw in the relationship. Failure to move beyond bilateralism to multilateral answers threatens to undermine the search for regional peace.

List of contents

List of Tables and Figures - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Japan's Alliance Politics - Japan's Secondary Alliance Dilemma - Japan's Self-Defence Forces and the Alliance - 'Defence Inc' - Alliance Techno- nationalism - Japan's Alliance after the Cold-War - Notes - Index

Product details

• Authors: N. Renwick
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.10.1995
• EAN: 9780312126759
• ISBN: 978-0-312-12675-9
• No. of pages: 169
• Weight: 385 g
• Illustrations: XII, 169 p.
• Series: St Antony's Series
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education