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Informationen zum Autor Alessio Patalano , Ph.D. (2009) in War Studies, King's College London (KCL), is Lecturer in War Studies at the Department of War Studies, KCL, where he specialises in Japanese military history, defence policy and East Asian security issues. Klappentext This thought-provoking volume explores how, across more than a century, sea power empowered both the UK and Japan with a defensive shield, an instrument of deterrence, and an enabling tool in expeditionary missions to implement courses of actions to preserve national economic and security interests worldwide. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Seapower and National Security: An Anglo-Japanese Way in Warfare? Part I: Strategic Partnership and Military Rivalry across the Oceans; 2. The Fulcrum of Power: Britain! Japan and the Asia-Pacific Region! 1880-1945; 3. Sea Power and Anglo-Japanese Military Relations! 1863-1923; 4. Britain's Strategic View of Japanese Naval Power! 1923-1942; Part II: Strategic Priorities from the Cold War to Iraq; 5. Balancing Threat Perceptions and Strategic Priorities: Japan's Post-war Defence Policy; 6. British Defence Policy and the Transformation of the Royal Navy in the Cold War and Beyond; 7. Punching Below Her Weight: Japan's Post-Cold War Expeditionary Missions; Part III: Maritime Strategy in an Interdependent World; 8. Back to an Offshore Future: The Role of the Past in Britain's Contemporary Defence Policy; 9. From Alliance to Coalition! then Where? Japan and the US Navy Cooperative Strategy for the Twenty-first Century; 10. The Political and Normative Constraints to Japan's National Security; Conclusions; 11. The Expeditionary Nature of Future Anglo-Japanese Military Power
