Reinventing the Alliance US - Japan Security Partnership in an Era of Change

This edited volume examines the U.S.-Japan security alliance, the key to U.S.-Japanese relations since the end of U.S. occupation in the 1950s. The alliance has long been a source of both cooperation and stress between the two nations, but with rapid changes in Asia, it has grown more problematic. This book brings American and Japanese specialists together to examine the alliance within the wider regional environment and to determine whether and how the bilateral alliance can evolve and remain at the core of the region's security order.

G. John Ikenberry is the Peter F. Krogh Professor of Global Justice in the School of Foreign Service, with a joint affiliation in the Department of Government, Georgetown University.

Takashi Inoguchi is Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo.