1st Edition
Japan's Security Policy and the ASEAN Regional Forum The Search for Multilateral Security in the Asia-Pacific
Introduction 1. Japan’s Growing Interest in Asia-Pacific Security Multilateralism: The Road to the Nakayama Proposal (1989-1991) 2. The Surge of Japan’s Enthusiasm for Regional Security Multilateralism and the Formation of the ARF (1992-1993) 3. Japan's Policy on the Evolution of Confidence Building Measures in the ARF 4. Japan's Challenges for Promoting Preventive Diplomacy in the ARF 5. Japan and Multilateral Security Dialogue in the ARF (1994-1997): Security Dialogue as a Means of Reassuring, Engaging or Constraining China? 6. Japan and Multilateral Security Dialogue in the ARF (1998-2005): Eroding Confidence in Multilateral Approaches to Regional Security Issues 7. Japan's Changing Conceptions of the ARF: From an Optimistic Liberal to a Pessimistic Realist Perspective on Asia-Pacific Security Multilateralism. Conclusion
Biography
Takeshi Yuzawa is Research Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs. His research interests include Asia-Pacific security, Japan’s foreign and security policy, International Relations Theory.
"In all, Yuzawa has opened the door on these important fronts for Japan amid a new generation of security studies...he must be commended for a thorough accounting of Japan's efforts, as well as associated outcomes, in building a security institution in the volatile East Asian region."
--Saadia M. Pekkanen, University of Washington
