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Strategic Cultures and Security Policies in the Asia-Pacific book cover

1st Edition

Strategic Cultures and Security Policies in the Asia-Pacific

Edited By Jeffrey S. Lantis Copyright 2015
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge
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This book shows how one of the most powerful tools of security studies—strategic culture—illuminates the origins and implications of the Asia-Pacific region’s difficult issues, from the rise of China and the American pivot, to the shifting calculations of many other actors. Strategic culture sometimes challenges and always enriches prevailing neo-realist presumptions about the region. It provides... Read more

1. INTRODUCTION: Strategic Cultures and Security Policies in the Asia-Pacific  Jeffrey S. Lantis  AUSTRALIA 2. Australia’s Strategic Culture: Constraints and Opportunities in Security Policymaking  Alex Burns and Ben Eltham  CHINA 3. China’s Real Strategic Culture: A Great Wall of the Imagination  Andrew Scobell  JAPAN 4. Japan’s Strategic Culture: Security Identity in a Fourth Modern Incarnation?  Andrew L. Oros  PHILIPPINES 5. Philippine Strategic Culture: Continuity in the Face of Changing Regional Dynamics  Renato Cruz De Castro  SOUTH KOREA 6. Strategic Culture of the Republic of Korea  Jiyul Kim  UNITED STATES 7. United States Strategic Culture and Asia-Pacific Security  Brice F. Harris  RETROSPECTIVE 8. What Can Strategic Culture Contribute to Our Understanding of Security Policies in the Asia-Pacific Region?  David G. Haglund

Biography

Jeffrey S. Lantis is Chair of the Department of Political Science and a Professor of Political Science/International Relatiosn at The College of Wooster. A former Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Australian National University, he is author of numerous books, journal articles, and book chapters on strategic culture, transatlantic relations, nuclear non-proliferation, and foreign policy in comparative perspective. Lantis holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from The Ohio State University.

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