1st Edition

Western Europe and Japan Between the Superpowers

By Wolf Mendl Copyright 1984
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1984, Western Europe and Japan Between the Superpowers is a challenging contribution to the great debate over Western security. Instead of lining up with those who favour the construction of a global alliance under American leadership or those who want neutralism or non-alignment, Wolf Mendl accepts some of the premises of both and argues for a third course. Taking a long... Read more

Introduction  1. Security in a Changing International Environment  2. The Military Dimension  3. The Alliance with the United States  4. Relations with the Soviet Union  5. Europe, Japan and the Third World  6. Europe’s and Japan’s Choices  Glossary  Appendix I: The North Atlantic Treaty (1949)  Appendix II: Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States of America and Japan (1960)

Biography

Wolf Mendl was a distinguished teacher in the field of international relations at Kings College, University of London for twenty-six years. He published several significant books about relations between Japan and China in the Cold War period.

Review of the first publication:

‘… [the author] provides a crisply written, incisively argued, study…’

— Andy Perry, Monash University