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Japan's Remilitarisation / Christopher W. Hughes

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  • Japan's Remilitarisation / Christopher W. Hughes
  • Abingdon : Routledge for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2009
  • 1 vol. (186 p.) : ill., tabl., graph. ; 24 cm
  • Adelphi 403 0567-932X
  • 0415556929
  • 9780415556927
  • Adelphi 403 0567-932X
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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 need to be carefully managed if it is not to become a source of destabilising tensions
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