Japan's Alliance Politics and Defence Production

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Japan’s Alliance Politics

   • Neil Renwick

   Pages 1-7

3. Japan’s Secondary Alliance Dilemma

   • Neil Renwick

   Pages 8-31

4. Japan’s Self-Defence Forces and the Alliance

   • Neil Renwick

   Pages 32-66

5. ‘Defence Inc.’?

   • Neil Renwick

   Pages 67-84

6. Alliance Techno-Nationalism

   • Neil Renwick

   Pages 85-104

7. Japan’s Alliance after the Cold War

   • Neil Renwick

   Pages 105-151

8. Back Matter

   Pages 152-169

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Japan's alliance with the United States is examined with reference to defence production and technology-sharing. The alliance's post-Cold-War relevance is considered. It is argued that there is a danger of significant tensions arising in the relationship from parallel rather than identical national interests. A widening gap between the respective interests forms a potentially fatal flaw in the relationship. Failure to move beyond bilateralism to multilateral answers threatens to undermine the search for regional peace.

• Defence
• nationalism
• politics
• production
• state
• technology

• Nottingham Trent University, UK

  Neil Renwick

• Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia

  Neil Renwick

NEIL RENWICK is Co-Director of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies and Reader in International Relations at The Nottingham Trent University.

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