| Japan and the Security of Asia Contributor(s): Hayes, Louis D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0739102958 ISBN-13: 9780739102954 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $128.70 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - History | Asia - Japan - History | Military - Strategy |
| Dewey: 327.52 |
| LCCN: 2001038406 |
| Series: Studies of Modern Japan |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.08 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Japan and the Security of Asia Louis Hayes studies modern Japan's frustrated search for national security. The book charts Japan's attempts to fashion its own place in the sun in the face of Great Power interventionism and national demands for regional hegemony: first through nascent internationalism and later disastrous totalitarianism that culminated in war in the Pacific. Hayes expertly tracks Japan's shifting foreign-policy goals up to the present day, moving from the preservation of the nation-state by force to the drive for economic self-aggrandizement as a Cold War client of the United States. The book reveals to the student of modern Asian history a twenty-first century Japan that has rejected unarmed neutrality and is reasserting its security independence in post-Cold War Asia. |