基本説明
This volume explores how, across more than a century, sea power empowered both the UK and Japan with a defensive shield, an instrument of deterrence, and an enabling tool in expeditionary missions to implement courses of actions to preserve national economic and security interests worldwide.
Full Description
Sharing a similar geography at the opposite ends of the Eurasian Continent and dependent on maritime trade to supplement the lack of strategic resources, both the UK and Japan relied on the sea for their economic survival and independence as sovereign states. From the first alliance in 1902, through the World Wars, to the more recent operations in the Indian Ocean and Iraq, sea power has played a central role in the strategic calculus of both countries. This thought-provoking book, comprising contributions from a group of international scholars, explores the strategic meaning of being an island nation. It investigates how, across more than a century, sea power empowered - and continues to empower - both the UK and Japan with a defensive shield, an instrument of deterrence, and an enabling tool in expeditionary missions to implement courses of action to preserve national economic and security interests worldwide.
Positioned within the comparative literature on Japan and the UK, the volume will have wide-ranging appeal including studies in Anglo-Japanese Relations, Naval Military History, and Studies in East Asian Defence and Sucurity, including Anglo-American and US-Japan strategic interests.
Contents
Introduction; 1. Seapower and National Security: An Anglo-Japanese Way in Warfare? Part I: Strategic Partnership and Military Rivalry across the Oceans; 2. The Fulcrum of Power: Britain, Japan and the Asia-Pacific Region, 1880-1945; 3. Sea Power and Anglo-Japanese Military Relations, 1863-1923; 4. Britain's Strategic View of Japanese Naval Power, 1923-1942; Part II: Strategic Priorities from the Cold War to Iraq; 5. Balancing Threat Perceptions and Strategic Priorities: Japan's Post-war Defence Policy; 6. British Defence Policy and the Transformation of the Royal Navy in the Cold War and Beyond; 7. Punching Below Her Weight: Japan's Post-Cold War Expeditionary Missions; Part III: Maritime Strategy in an Interdependent World; 8. Back to an Offshore Future: The Role of the Past in Britain's Contemporary Defence Policy; 9. From Alliance to Coalition, then Where? Japan and the US Navy Cooperative Strategy for the Twenty-first Century; 10. The Political and Normative Constraints to Japan's National Security; Conclusions; 11. The Expeditionary Nature of Future Anglo-Japanese Military Power
