1st Edition

Japan's Economic Power and Security Japan and North Korea

By Christopher W. Hughes Copyright 1999
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Is Japan re-emerging as a normal, or even a great, military power in regional and global security affairs? This Adelphi Paper assesses the overall trajectory of Japan’s security policy over the last decade, and the impact of a changing Japanese military posture on the stability of East Asia. The paper examines Japan’s evolving security debate, set against the background of a shifting... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Global and Japanese conceptions of power and security policy in the post-Cold War era; Chapter 2 Theory of economic power and security; Chapter 3 Military and economic conceptions of the North Korean security problem; Chapter 4 Japanese economic power and North Korea; Chapter 5 The Japanese policy-making process and economic versus military security policy; conclusion Conclusion;

Biography

Christopher W. Hughes is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick.