Description
As tensions between China and Japan increase, including over the disputed islands in the East China Sea, Japan has adopted under Prime Minister Abe a new security posture. This involves, internally, adapting Japan窶冱 constitutional position on defence and, externally, building stronger international relationships in the Asia-Pacific region and more widely. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of these developments. It shows how trust and co-operation with the United States, the only partner with which Japan has a formal alliance, is being rebuilt, discusses how other relationships, both on security and on wider issues, are being formed, in the region and with European countries and the EU, with the relationships with India and Australia being of particular importance, and concludes by assessing the likely impact on the region of Japan窶冱 changing posture and new relationships.
Table of Contents
1. Japan窶冱 Evolving Regional Security Policy: The Quest for Strategic Partnerships
2. Japan窶冱 Relations with China
3. The US Pivot to the Asia-Pacific Region and Japan窶冱 Responses
4. India and Japan: the New Strategic Dimension
5. Australia-Japan Security Relations: Bridging the China Gap or a Bridge too Far?
6. Japan窶冱 New Activism in ASEAN: China窶冱 Challenge and the Search for a New Regional Order in East Asia
7. Parameters of the Strategic Alliance between South Korea and Japan
8. The Europe-Japan Strategic Partnership 窶� Values, Promises and Defense
