Japan's remilitarisation - Christopher W. Hughes
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Is Japan on a path towards assuming a greater military role internationally, or has the recent military normalisation ground to a halt since the premiership of Junichiro Koizumi? In this book, Christopher W. Hughes assesses developments in defence expenditure, civil-military relations, domestic and international military-industrial complexes, Japan's procurement of regional and global power-projection capabilities, the expansion of US-Japan cooperation, and attitudes towards nuclear weapons, constitutional revision and the use of military force. In all of these areas, dynamic and long-term changes outweigh Japan's short-term political logjam over security policy. Hughes argues that many post-war constraints on Japan's military role are still eroding, and that Tokyo is moving towards a more assertive military role and strengthened US-Japan cooperation. Japan's remilitarisation will boost its international security role and the dominance of the US-Japan alliance in regional and global security affairs, but will...
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2009Uitgever: International Institute for Strategic Studies186 paginasISBN-10: 0415556929ISBN-13: 9780415556927Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2009, paperback, goed exemplaar / good copy [Auteur: Hughes, Christopher W.] [Uitgever: Taylor & Francis] [Jaar: 2009] [Titel: Japan's Remilitarisation]
