Rethinking Japanese Security: Internal and External Dimensions

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ISBN: 9780415773942 | 0415773946
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Copyright: 4/9/2008

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Since the unexpected end of the Cold War, standard arguments about power politics can no longer be adopted uncritically. This has led to a renewed interest in Japan's unusually peaceful security policy.

List of contributors	p. x
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Japanese security in perspective	p. 1
Japanese security and analytical eclecticism	p. 3
Japan in the American Imperium	p. 10
Japan and China: two tigers on one mountain?	p. 20
Conclusion	p. 24
Japan, Asian-Pacific security, and the case for analytical eclecticism	p. 32
What is a "natural" or "normal" Japan?	p. 32
Analytical electicism in the analysis of Japanese and Asian-Pacific security	p. 35
Conclusion	p. 44
Japan's internal and external security policies	p. 57
Japan's security policy: political, economic, and military dimensions	p. 59
Domestic structures	p. 59
Normative contexts	p. 66
Conclusion	p. 71
Japan's internal security policy	p. 76
The structure of the Japanese police	p. 78
The political position of the police	p. 82
The police in its domestic and international setting	p. 84
Japan's policy of internal security	p. 89
Conclusion	p. 97
Japan and Asian-Pacific security: regionalization, entrenched bilateralism, and incipient multilateralism	p. 104
Formal bilateralism and changes in the U.S.-Japan security arrangements	p. 105
Informal bilateralism and Japan's internal security policies	p. 111
Incipient multilateralism in Japan's external and internal security policies	p. 114
Conclusion	p. 119
Immovable object? Japan's security policy in East Asia	p. 133
Japan's societal security policy	p. 135
Japan's counterterrorism policies before September 11, 2001	p. 140
The impact of 9/11	p. 145
Japanese and Asian security in comparative perspective	p. 155
Coping with terrorism: norms and internal security in Germany and Japan	p. 157
Terrorism and government response	p. 160
Domestic norms and internal security policy	p. 165
International norms and internal security	p. 169
Norms as analytical constructs for empirical analysis	p. 173
Conclusion	p. 175
Why is there no NATO in Asia? Collective identity, regionalism, and the origins of multilateralism	p. 185
Constructing regions and regional institutions after 1945	p. 187
Universal and indeterminate explanations	p. 189
Eclectic explanations: power, threats, and identity	p. 192
Conclusion	p. 207
Same war-different views: Germany, Japan, and counterterrorism	p. 217
Analytical expectations	p. 219
German and Japanese counterterrorism policy before September 11	p. 224
Germany, Japan, and counterterrorist policies	p. 232
The U.S. war on terrorism in comparative perspective	p. 238
Analytical eclecticism and security	p. 247
Rethinking Asian security: a case for analytical eclecticism	p. 249
Research traditions and explanatory sketches in international relations	p. 253
Eclecticism and problem-soliving	p. 263
Eclecticism and Asian security: the shrinking of "natural expectations"	p. 268
Conclusion	p. 274
Index	p. 286
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