| Normalizing Japan: Politics, Identity, and the Evolution of Security Practice Contributor(s): Oros, Andrew L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 080470029X ISBN-13: 9780804700290 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: " Normalizing Japan " explains how politics and identity have interacted in postwar Japan to shape Japans distinctive security practices, offering a useful framework for understanding the important change taking place in Japanese security policy today. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Security (national & International) - Political Science | Public Policy - General - History | Asia - Japan |
| Dewey: 335.033 |
| LCCN: 2007038750 |
| Series: Studies in Asian Security (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.36" W x 9.1" (1.21 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Normalizing Japan seeks to answer the question of what future direction Japan's military policies are likely to take, by considering how policy has evolved since World War II, and what factors shaped this evolution. It argues that Japanese security policy has not changed as much in recent years as many believe, and that future change also will be highly constrained by Japan's long-standing security identity, the central principle guiding Japanese policy over the past half-century. Oros' analysis is based on detailed exploration of three cases of policy evolution--restrictions on arms exports, the military use of outer space, and cooperation with the United States on missile defense--which shed light on other cases of policy change, such as Japan's deployment of its military to Iraq and elsewhere and its recent creation of a Ministry of Defense. More broadly, the book refines how ideational factors interact with domestic politics and international changes to create policy change. |