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Overcoming Isolationism: Japan's Leadership in East Asian Security Multilateralism

Overcoming Isolationism: Japan's Leadership in East Asian Security Multilateralism

Midford, Paul

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Asian Security

General Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1503611698
ISBN13: 9781503611696
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jul 14 2020
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This book asks why, in the wake of the Cold War, Japan suddenly reversed years of steadfast opposition to security cooperation with its neighbors. Long isolated and opposed to multilateral agreements, Japan proposed East Asia's first multilateral security forum in the early 1990s, emerging as a regional leader. Overcoming Isolationism explores what led to this surprising about-face and offers a corrective to the misperception that Japan's security strategy is reactive to US pressure and unresponsive to its neighbors. Paul Midford draws on newly released official documents and extensive interviews to reveal a quarter century of Japanese leadership in promoting regional security cooperation. He demonstrates that Japan has a much more nuanced relationship with its neighbors and has played a more significant leadership role in shaping East Asian security than has previously been recognized.

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