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Normalizing Japan: Politics, Identity, and the Evolution of Security Practice

Normalizing Japan: Politics, Identity, and the Evolution of Security Practice

Oros, Andrew L.

Paperback

Series: Studies in Asian Security

General Political ScienceInternational RelationsSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0804770662
ISBN13: 9780804770668
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jul 23 2009
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Normalizing Japan seeks to answer the question of what future direction Japan's military policies are likely to take, by considering how policy has evolved since World War II, and what factors shaped this evolution. It argues that Japanese security policy has not changed as much in recent years as many believe, and that future change also will be highly constrained by Japan's long-standing security identity, the central principle guiding Japanese policy over the past half-century. Oros' analysis is based on detailed exploration of three cases of policy evolution--restrictions on arms exports, the military use of outer space, and cooperation with the United States on missile defense--which shed light on other cases of policy change, such as Japan's deployment of its military to Iraq and elsewhere and its recent creation of a Ministry of Defense. More broadly, the book refines how ideational factors interact with domestic politics and international changes to create policy change.

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